Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)
* D. (youto_22554@yahoo.com) spake thusly:
> Hi all,
> The system administrator at work is a subcontract
> employee. He is also the administrator at his
> company. The company that I work for also has
> employe's from his company working here and they
> travel back and forth between companies and use their
> M$ laptops at both sites. Here is the problem.. both
> sites use M$ and my company has the DHCP set and the
> other company doesn't, so when these people go to
> their company they have to go and set the nic card up.
^^^^^^^^
*Blam* authomatic ATM machine.
> He asked me if I knew of a way to do this and I have
> searched the web and came up dry... I think that a lot
> of the people that are on this list are also very
> knowledgable about M$ also. Is there a way to do this ...
Yes. Hire a sysadmin.
...
> with out setting his company up to use DHCP?
No. The problem here is that lusers are by definition
incapable of typing the right incantations into TCP/IP
properties widget. Not to mention M$ lusers^Wprogrammers
who are incapable of programming even remotely sane
behaviour in their crapware. But then, a sysadmin would
know that.
Dima
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