It can assign IP addresses only to clients that are configured on your server machine. Therefore, You need to know the physical address of the computers that are supposed to get an IP address assigned. The physical address consists of 6 bytes and are given in hexadecimal notation. Open the dhcpsrv.ini file and create a section for each client. The section title has to be the physical address of the client machine.
Some settings are common for every client computer.
Everything that is not found in the physical address section is looked up in the general section. Hybrid You can setup additional entries in the dhcpsrv.ini file. If you are using Windows 9x then you should put the dhcsrv.exe into your Autostart and restart all clients, thats all. If you are using Windows NT or 2000 you have the option to run the DHCP server as a service. The advantage is that you don't need to login to start the server.