Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)
Thanks for all of the suggestions that I received on
this. I have passed them on.
Don
--- Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
> * 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
> --
> Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.
> -- Shmuel Metz
> "Go forth and multiply".
> -- Paul Martin
>
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