NBT Part III or Please don't make fun of me.

After several months I have slowly come to accept the
fact that I was going insane. It's the kind of insanity
that occurs when you and you alone know what the
Benevolent Aliens mean by 'Serving Man', but no one
will listen.

For months now I have been battling 'disappearing'
NetBios names. It all started with the 98 boxes, but
then I got really alarmed when it spread to the XP
boxes too. All I could do was create LMHost files
and hard code IP addresses.

That little blue box called a Linksys router, was acting
as the DHCP server (as I had planned all along) but
many months ago, I, for reasons unknown to me now,
set the IP lease time to 6 months! (259200 minutes to
be exact). As a direct result of that ill-fated decision
the DHCP server, alas, ran out of IP addresses.

So what did I do? No realizing at the time why I was
running out of IP addresses, I increased the number of
available address from 50 to 100! (actually I blamed
the stupid router) But then I found a machine with an
IP address of 192.168.1.197 that could not see the
network. Confused, because IP address really **** me
off, I lowered the range to 75 and performed a /release
/renew. It worked.

For a while.

Then in a moment of clarity, inspired when three machines
that I had previously 'fixed' refused to see the network and
were being assigned private IP addresses, I had an epiphany.

After careful inspection I noticed the 6 month lease time
and I set it back to the default 24 hours, did a /release
/renew on all computers and that solved all my problems.
Well, not all my problems, but this whole NetBios
/IPAddress thing anyway.

I still don't know what NetBios over TCP, running out
of IP addresses, Master Browsers and valid IP
address not seeing the network have to do with one
another, but it all works now, so I will stop trying to
understand it.

kp 'there is a moral in there somewhere' g

kpg

In news:,
kpg <> rambled:
>
> but it all works now, so I will stop trying to understand it.
>

This, my friends, is what IT is all about.


--

KB - MCNGP "silent thug" #26

Briscobar AT gmail DOT com

Ken Briscoe

incase you missed it "kpg" <> said in
news::

> I still don't know what NetBios over TCP, running out
> of IP addresses, Master Browsers and valid IP
> address not seeing the network have to do with one
> another, but it all works now, so I will stop trying to
> understand it.

your training is complete...

--
Neil MCNGP #30
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to
learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for
their apparent disinclination to do so."

Doug Adams

Neil

"kpg" <> wrote in message
news:...

i'm dealing with the same thing, except i'm having problems with novell,
which is stupid, worthless, unstable, and pointless. The 'professional'
computer guy at my school quit, and i was his assistant, so now i am the
head IT person at my school.

nerd'wtf'32768

nerd32768

"nerd32768" <nerd{nospam}> wrote:>
> The 'professional'
> computer guy at my school quit, and i was his assistant, so now i am the
> head IT person at my school.
>

Cool. Ask for Compensation.

kpg

kpg

nerd32768 wrote:
> "kpg" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
> i'm dealing with the same thing, except i'm having problems with
> novell, which is stupid, worthless, unstable, and pointless. The
> 'professional' computer guy at my school quit, and i was his
> assistant, so now i am the head IT person at my school.
>
> nerd'wtf'32768

That's gonna look really good on a resume. 13-year-old head of IT.

=?Windows-1252?Q?Frisbee=AE?=

In news:,
Frisbee® <> rambled:
>
> nerd32768 wrote:
>> "kpg" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>
>> i'm dealing with the same thing, except i'm having problems with
>> novell, which is stupid, worthless, unstable, and pointless. The
>> 'professional' computer guy at my school quit, and i was his
>> assistant, so now i am the head IT person at my school.
>>
>> nerd'wtf'32768
>
> That's gonna look really good on a resume. 13-year-old head of IT.

I'm gonna go shuffle on back into my hole now. I'm feeling kinda inadequate
and underacheiving today.

Thanks Nerd. Really.

--

KB - MCNGP "silent thug" #26

Briscobar AT gmail DOT com

Ken Briscoe

did you hear "nerd32768" <nerd{nospam}> say in news:
#:

> i am the
> head IT person at my school.
>

You've peaked WAAAAAAAYYYYY too early....

--
Neil MCNGP #30
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to
learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for
their apparent disinclination to do so."

Doug Adams

Neil

> > That's gonna look really good on a resume. 13-year-old head of IT.
>
> I'm gonna go shuffle on back into my hole now. I'm feeling kinda
inadequate
> and underacheiving today.
>
> Thanks Nerd. Really.
>
> --
>
> KB - MCNGP "silent thug" #26
>
> Briscobar AT gmail DOT com

unfortunately, the AP still has to order everything and approve spending,
and i don't get to be anyone's boss, I'm the only IT person. some things are
pathetic. there are 1800 people at my school, and i am in charge of ALL the
computers/terminals(but not the servers ). As soon as i work for a
little bit longer, i am hoping for pay and access to the servers, but that
hasn't happened yet.

Nerd"what's that teacher's password?"32768

nerd32768

> Nerd"what's that teacher's password?"32768

Geez. Here I am the ASM programmer and after all
this time I just figured out the significance of 32768.

The ginkgo is helping.

kp "now if I only knew what jtyc stood for..." g

kpg