Duplicate IP address

[burnley]

The boss in my company takes his laptop home on weekends. He uses
another network (not his own) which assigns an IP address 192.168.0.10.
Our IP address range is 192.168.0.20-80 and the printers IP addresss is
192.168.0.10-12 (we have 3 printers). The printers are used by an old
hard programmed IP address so they cannot change. When my boss comes in
and hooks up his laptop, he gets a IP address error and causes printer
problems. I have to preform a ipconfig /renew to sort this out.
I have our DHCP leases on 1 day leases.

A previous post mentioned about a forced DHCP, but it was not a good
option for them. Can it be done?

At present I gave my boss a static IP with our DNS hoping that he
doesn't get a hiccup on the other network.

 

[Guest]

You could place a batch file in the "Shutdown Script" folder
to release the IP address upon shutdown.

IPCONFIG /release

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314850

Use the Group Policy Editor to enable the batch file shutdown script.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198642

Austin M. Horst