I am using Windows 2003 server which is directly connected to Broad band internet connection. All other systems having Windows XP with ip address 192.168.X.X. Sharing internet connection through Analog Proxy. I want to setup Outlook Express or MS Outlook in client system. Please help me.

1) Does your ISP provide the email service or do you use an in-house email server?

2) Do your "client" desktops connect via router and/or LAN switch?

If you use a standard LAN setup, then your router becomes your in-house LAN DHCP and will automatically assign IP according to what you setup as the IP-Pool. You connect the router to your ISP's modem/router whatever.

Where I work:

The-World-----ISP's_modem-----Router----LAN_Switch-----Desktops
.........................................................|
.........................................................|----Local_Fileserver----Shared_Network_Printers


If your email server is elsewhere, ISP or corporate IT, then they provide what you need for email. For the company I work for, corporate uses a Novel email server, and anyone in the company can use POP3/SMTP for Outlook or Novel's native GroupWise for Windows email client.