I want to use Win2kServer's NAT and DHCP services instead of ICS. With ICS enabled, my server and other workstations can access the 'net fine. Once I disable ICS and attempt to enable NAT, I get all sorts of problems. With NAT enabled (and probably not configured correctly), my lan side nic (we'll call it NIC2) cannot ping anything on the net. Of course, my workstations cannot access antything either. For DHCP, do my clients need to point to my NIC2 on my server for a gateway, or to the IP addy of my @home connection, or what? What all needs to be configured for NAT on my Server? I go through the wizard setup, but I can't seem to get it working. Any clarification is much appreciated. Thanks.

I am relativly new to win2k but isnt ICS doing what NAT does? i.e. serving up dynamic ip's and routing internet? Why not just use ICS? Bri

ICS is doing NATING!! you cannot ping with NAT if the NAT package doesn;t offer port mapping options (win2k ICS doesnt). Yes you need to set a gateway IP address(server's Lan IP) for each workstation (client). If you are using win9x client, win2k's DHCP may bot work correctly, then i suggest to set static ip such as 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, ... You may also try WINROUTE-pro a good software available to do Nating, proxy and firewalling. I tested it on win95, win2k, win98 and it's running fine. It support port mapping and scheduled & DOD DUN

Yes, ICS is doing what NAT can do, I just want to use NAT instead of ICS so I can see exactly how to set it up. When you enable Remote Routing and Access, it gives you the option of using NAT or ICS. I want DHCP enabled rather than addressing each client seperately (and yes, I know that when you enable ICS, Win2k enables a watered down DHCP server -but it's not the real DHCP server that is built in). I don't see why I couldn't disable ICS, enable DHCP and NAT as seperate services that are built into Win2k Server and use that. ICS just seems too watered down and doesn't give you any options for configration. Anyone else?

There is a good third party available with a lot of interesting features: Take a look to www.Winroute.com, the pro version have port mapping and firewalling options. I can't help more with the built-in NAT of win2k server, i only tested ICS on win2k-pro. As per your message, this option is different on the server version.