Louie,

You can run Win2k server in a workgroup, if you can't then I wonder what my 20 servers are up to?

You did mention AD (active directory) now that opens up another can of worms. We don't use Active Directory or Dynamic DNS. My servers are fairly stable and run much better than they did on NT4. I can go for weeks without restarting them, partially (I believe) due to the fact that we kept them simple and aren't running AD or Domain controllers. In fact most of my restarts are caused by apps that won't run for weeks without hitting some sort of barriers internally like variable limits. Unfortunately, it's commercial software so I can't fix it, I just hope they fixed it in the updates.

Stuart