Prevent change of statically assigned IP

18 Dec 2005 6:10 PM

ali.jan

Hi,

I have a small LAN of mixed windows 98, ME and XP's. I have a server
which is a windows xp machine to which acts as a gateway for all of
these other machines. I also have internet connection sharing enabled
on my server.

I have statically assigned IP's to all of these machines. What I want
to know is that if there is any way to fix these statically assigned
ips so that the users of those machines that are on the LAN are not
able to change the ips to whatever value as they please.

Is doing this possible from with in windows or would I need a third
party software or is there any way of doing this?

Thanks

18 Dec 2005 6:42 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

In news:1134929434.642734.124410@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com,

ali.***@gmail.com <ali.***@gmail.com> typed:
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> Hi,
>
> I have a small LAN of mixed windows 98, ME and XP's. I have a server
> which is a windows xp machine to which acts as a gateway for all of
> these other machines. I also have internet connection sharing enabled
> on my server.
>
> I have statically assigned IP's to all of these machines. What I want
> to know is that if there is any way to fix these statically assigned
> ips so that the users of those machines that are on the LAN are not
> able to change the ips to whatever value as they please.
>
> Is doing this possible from with in windows or would I need a third
> party software or is there any way of doing this?
>
> Thanks

With Win98 and ME, you can't secure anything. They are not secure OSes. If
possible, get those machines off your network - either upgrade to XP or
replace them with new PCs running XP.
With NT-based operating systems, make sure the user accounts don't have
admin rights, and they can't do squat with the network settings.