Originally Posted by
slgrieb
Color me confused, but I'm not sure why this is a big issue. Most of my commercial accounts are small credit unions and banks. A lot of the reports they generate require assigned IP addresses to print, so I use assigned IP addresses throughout the businesses. It takes a bit more time to set it up initially, but once it is done, you only need to look at a simple spreadsheet or printout to identify every machine in the system.
Honestly, if dealing with MS operating system makes you nuts, you clearly aren't spending enough time working with Macs.