05 Mar 11, 03:33PM
If you do it right there is no reason why it should be a security risk or a pain once you set it up.
To fix the IP address assignment issue, you may not need to do anything -- the router might assign port forwarding rules based on your computer name and MAC address instead of IP address -- or you may need to assign your computer a static IP from the router. Same result.
Like Jamz said, no one gets their computer compromised through an AC server or we would hear about it; besides, there's no reason that should be an issue because you shouldn't be running servers like that on accounts that can do system-level things (i.e. break stuff). It's that simple. Just run the server in a non-administrative account and if anything goes wrong nothing vital can be damaged.
To fix the IP address assignment issue, you may not need to do anything -- the router might assign port forwarding rules based on your computer name and MAC address instead of IP address -- or you may need to assign your computer a static IP from the router. Same result.
Like Jamz said, no one gets their computer compromised through an AC server or we would hear about it; besides, there's no reason that should be an issue because you shouldn't be running servers like that on accounts that can do system-level things (i.e. break stuff). It's that simple. Just run the server in a non-administrative account and if anything goes wrong nothing vital can be damaged.