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A have several questions. Here is my situation. New Amahi install on a home network with a router. All boxes on this network are windows flavors. I was using Windows Home server for shared file storage and imaging of each computer on the network. I used the work group name of GG to include the server. I could then see each PC and the server in network neighborhood. I have installed the Amahi server and cannot see the server. In this network configuration:

1. Should I run the Amahi server with a static IP address? If so how do you give the server a static IP address? Do I have to do anything special on the Dlink router if I assign the server with a static IP address?
2. Should I run the Amahi server as the DHCP server instead of the router? If so how do you set that up?
3. How do I set up the server so that it can see and be seen by the computers on this home network? In windows it was easy - Just set up each one in the same work group (GG for example). Can I do the same thing with Amahi server? If so how do you do so?

thanks in advance for your assistance!!

Have you read the features and installation steps?

1. yes. it will be set up automatically when you install Amahi; you will need to turn off DHCP on your router
2. yes. it will be set up automatically when you install Amahi; please consult your router manual how to turn off DHCP on your router
3. it will be set up automatically when you install Amahi; the workgroup name will be the same as the domain name you chose for your Amahi.org profile.