"Dave J." skrev i en meddelelse
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In on Tue, 19 Jun 2007
12:43:36 +0200, in uk.comp.home-networking, 'Flemming L. Baerentsen'
wrote:

Hi James,

Thank you for your respond.

I have also considered adding both DNS and DHCP server in Blackbox. But
then
again, what if the network consist of an existing DNS and DHCP server.
Then
it again will be back to square one.


Assuming 'Blackbox' has a static IP.

Would it not be simpler to create an 'installation' bat file for them to
run on each machine? The file (called anything.bat) has to contain

echo 192.168.1.10 blackbox %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

and it will add the required entry automagically when executed. Obviously,
replace 192.168.1.10 with the actual IP of blackbox.

Hi Dave,

Problem here is that the IP is unknown for the PC user as the Blackbox does
not have static IP. We do not know which IP-scheme the customer is using at
his/her network.

Regards
Flemming