I have 1 box set up as an Apache server and while it worked OK most of the time, the assigned IP kept changing. After p*ssing around with the Windows technique of setting an IP manually which just would not work,
I left it to automatic DHCP and went to the router that with a little exploring, had the option to reserve an IP to a particular MAC address. BINGO, it all worked correctly and I can reliably access the server from any machine.
The Microsoft reference data would have to be labelled as "obscure" = does not work etc ....
Hi Hutch,
Quotethe assigned IP kept changing.
This is not usual. What's the IP lease time in the settings of the DHCP server?
Without digging it up, I think its 24 hours but setting the IP in the router solved the problem and funny enough, when I changed the browser link in one edition of Slimjet, the Google sync fixed it in all of the browsers. I don't think there is a technique to set up a domain name server on a LAN of Win10 machines and I don't want to use an external providor.