E2500 Internet Configuration

Question

Good Day
I'm having trouble properly configuring this Router.
Let me explain the current network setup at our office.
We've got a FritzBox which supplies internet access and is directly connected to our Fileserver,there is an isolated connection between the FritzBox and the Server machine with an IP of 192.168.0.5
The server provides a gateway with an IP of 10.7.0.1.
It has no DHCP server functionality,machines that connect need a static IP of 10.7.0.x and the gateway/DNS address set to the server's IP
I have the E2500 configured as such: Router IP 10.7.0.2
                                                                    Gateway   10.7.0.1
                                                                    DNS          10.7.0.1
(Bridge mode at the time of writing)
My big question is,is it possible to configure the router to behave as a DHCP server for WLAN/LAN while using the server as  Gateway/DNS ?
tl:dr :Want new clients connecting to the E2500 to automatically receive IP starting from 10.7.0.3 with gateway and DNS being 10.7.0.1
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Answer 1

i get what you're saying. you want the Linksys to distribute IP's via DHCP, but not use the NAT to translate the IP to a different segment, hence still using the 10.7.0.x IP range so that everything is technically on the same network. am I correct?
my take: it is technically possible, but there's a possibility that the Internet will not work/traverse through, or you'll have an IP conflict. Note that once you use the EA2500's Internet port, you're already performing NAT.