Windoze laptop address allocation :-(

[Steven W. Orr]

As incredibly knowledgable as I am in linux I'm a total dolt in windoze. 
For reasons that just horrify me I have to take posession of a winblose 
laptop which when used at home will be NATing out through my server. Any 
computers I have in house are running linux and all have static addresses 
assigned.

Can some kind soul tell me what I need to do (prefereably at both ends) so 
that when I plug my laptop into the hub it'll get an address? The topology 
is that the server plugs into the cable modem and the server has two NICs. 
The hub plugs into the other NIC.

Thanks :-(

-- 
Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have  .0.
happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0
Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
steveo at syslang.net