Windows Server 2008 Internet Sharing

System

I am not sure why you are routing your clients through the server. Let them connect directly to the router and pick up their IP address from there.

You have made things difficult by routing through the server unless you intend to run it as a proxy/ISA server.

Pugwash69

On my network, the server is just hung off the same network as the clients, but I disable DHCP on the router and run MS DHCP on the server. The server has a static IP and the clients all use the server for DNS, the router's IP as the gateway.
I considered two NICs but it just over complicated things where a NAT does an adequate job of isolating clients from unsolicited external access.

chris1012

The problem with just the one NIC is that the internet router is located in another room which cannot be wired, so I am having to use a homeplug to create the link to the server.

Ideally I would want all the clients to connect to the windows 2k8 dhcp server so I am able to have a more controlled setup and at the moment my one client, is wired through to the 2k8 server which I am able to pickup an IP but just haven't been able to get internet shared to it.

Any step by step guides you have or may know, would really help.

Thanks

gaming_guy

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System

chris1012 wrote: »

The problem with just the one NIC is that the internet router is located in another room which cannot be wired, so I am having to use a homeplug to create the link to the server.

Ideally I would want all the clients to connect to the windows 2k8 dhcp server so I am able to have a more controlled setup and at the moment my one client, is wired through to the 2k8 server which I am able to pickup an IP but just haven't been able to get internet shared to it.

Any step by step guides you have or may know, would really help.

Thanks

If you are using homeplug then connect the one at the server end to a switch instead. That way all clients connect directly through to the router

pcombo

you would be easier doing that.

Just use router as gateway. dns and dhcp sevrer.

connect homeplug to it, then connect the other homeplug into a switch then simply plus all clients in.

such an easy and simple setup.