Change the IP address of the Win 2003 network adapter

How to change the IP address assigned to the network adapter, log in to the computer with an administrator account. Click Start, point to Control Panel, point to Network Connections, and then click the local connection that you want to modify. In the Connection Status dialog box, click Properties. Right-click on the required local connection and click Properties. The “Local Network Connection Properties” dialog box will appear on the screen. In the "This connection uses the following items" box, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties. The “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties & rdquo; dialog box will appear on the screen. Continue with the steps in one of the following two sections (selected according to your environment). How to obtain an IP address automatically, follow the steps below to configure the computer to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server. Note that you must have a DHCP server. Click “Automatically Obtain IP Address”. If you do not want to specify the IP address of the Domain Name System (DNS) server, click “Automatically Obtain DNS Server Address”. Click OK. In the “Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Close. In the "Local Area Connection Status" dialog box, click Close. Click Start, then click Run. In the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK. At the command prompt, type ipconfig /release and press ENTER. Type ipconfig/renew and press ENTER. The DHCP server will assign an IP address to the network adapter and you will see a message like this: Windows.NETIPConfiguration EthernetadapterLocalAreaConnection: Connection-specificDNSSuffix.:dns.microsoft.com IPAddress.......... ..:192.168.0.201 SubnetMask...........:255.255.255.0 DefaultGateway.........:192.168.0.1 Type exit and press ENTER to exit the command prompt. How to Specify an IP Address
To assign an IP address to a network adapter, do the following: xx: If you want to assign an IP address to the network adapter, click “Use the following IP address”. In the "IP address" box, type the IP address you want to assign to this network adapter. This IP address must be unique within the range of available addresses for your network. Please contact your network administrator for a list of valid IP addresses for your network. In the "Subnet Mask" box, type the subnet mask for your network. In the "Default Gateway" box, type the IP address of the computer or device on your network that is connecting your network to another network or the Internet. In the "Priority DNS Server" box, type the IP address of the computer that resolves the hostname to an IP address. In the "Alternate DNS Server" box, type the IP address of the DNS computer you want to use when the preferred DNS server is unavailable. Click OK. In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Close. In the "Local Area Connection Status" dialog box, click Close. Troubleshooting IP address conflicts: If you try to assign an occupied IP address, you will see the following error message: ThestaticIPaddressthatwasjustconfiguredisalreadyinuseonthe network.PleasereconfigureadifferentIPaddress. Your computer cannot connect to other computers on the network: if the network adapter is assigned incorrectly The subnet mask address, then the computer will actually be on another network, so you cannot connect to other computers on the network. Your computer cannot connect to other computers using the host name: if an incorrect DNS server IP address is assigned, or if you are not using a DNS server, you cannot connect to these computers using the host names of other computers. This way you will not be able to browse the Internet. You can connect to them using the IP addresses of other computers. To work around this issue on the local network, add a mapping of hostnames to IP addresses in the "host" file