Who should attend: Anyone with two or more networked Windows clients, who wants to automatically distribute network information to those clients. Attendees should have a basic knowledge of TCP/IP, typical network set-up, and procedures for installing/working with their operating system.

This course will cover the DHCP & DNS protocols and how these protocols fit into a typical network. Both UNIX and Windows NT servers for DHCP & DNS will be covered. We will mostly focus on Windows 95 and Windows NT clients, although UNIX clients are similar.

DHCP can be used to distribute IP address, router, DNS, WINS and other information to network clients, without needing to visit each machine and manually configure it. DNS, the Domain Name Service, is the system by which Internet TCP/IP hosts lookup host addresses and network services.

The following topics will be included:

	DHCP & DNS protocol in-depth
	Which server platform should be used? UNIX or Windows NT?
	Which DHCP/DNS server to run? Should you use a commercial solution or will freeware do the job?
	Daily maintenance of DHCP & DNS servers
	How to integrate DHCP information into DNS (and do you really need  to?)
	Debugging problems when they occur
	Useful reference materials