Another hard drive failure.... External drive. being used as a network share.

But at what point do you just say enough and walk away? I'm not much on the term 'quitting'... but as a one person IT department in position of having essentially build a full BUSINESS network while putting band-aides on what you have...

I like where I am working,.. there are some awesome people here. But I am completely overwhelmed. I have spoken to my super about some help, and I know it's being addressed. But this is seriously more that I can handle or deal with. I literally don't get a break, and with what I hope to do, there won't be one for a long time....

Is it is time to walk away.. or should I keep trying- knowing that I really have to do just that,.. keep trying. I know I can fix it,.. I just can't fix it all right now....I can't be in 5 different counties at the same time. And they would prefer my not making more then 40 hours a week...

Smooth or not,.. I may be going across the street to find some....

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Very cool. Microsoft is working hard to get Windows devices out in the lower Android price ranges. For devices like this, the OS is free these days.

Microsoft is still going to have to push "Developers. Developers. Developers" to make good MODERN/METRO apps. Sure, this will run desktop apps but it really does need more quality and useful "tablet" apps.

But will it run Linux?

At the price, I may have to look into picking one up... Could be fun

Being here in central Kentucky, I feel that I should be able to drink it,.. but I haven't found a one yet that I can tolerate. I'm not much of a drinker,.. though here of late it would be nice sometimes....

@Dashrender said:

Does that same key exist in HKLM?

Not that I am able to find. It appears that the keys are only within HKLU

I have a workstation that is throwing an error when trying to open a .docx file. If you open Word then click open, document name - it opens fine.

But if you just open the document you get an error:

"There was a problem sending the command to the program"

There are two user profiles on the computer, was getting it in both. edited the registry HK_user/Software/Microsoft/Office/14.0/Word deleting options; File MRU; Data

Also searched for and deleted the normal.dotx files.

On the one profile it worked, no additional errors. But on the person's profile the error remains. I have searched and also found a Microsoft FIXIT tool, but that does not correct the problem either.

Has anyone else ran into this little gem?

@MattKing said:

@scottalanmiller said:

LMAO. The Dildo Virus.

HAHAHAHA cannot up that enough.

Keep it up funny man... Keep it up....

@Dashrender said:

Hmm.. I guess I'm not reading the right things I've never heard DevOps before.

Nice article with good explanations, as usual.

@technobabble said:

Very interesting article. I had never heard of DevOps before either.

I'm not a coder (even thought I could do some .bat work and HTML) - But as a 25 year veteran of working with hardware and software, does that make me a DevOps person? I'm working on reading the article between everyone hunting me down for something else to fix.....

@thecreativeone91 said:

I've noticed that the more expensive hotels (namely Hilton) that I've stayed at have crappier internet but they also would charge me $10/day for internet because they use a per room ADSL connection. the Cheaper hotels seems to have better internet but everyone is on the same network and it's free. It's weird you'd think the more expensive hotels would have better internet.

Living in an apartment complex a few years ago, I thought it would be next to nothing to offer internet to all the units using managed switches where you are able to control each port. You want it, turn it on, don't pay, turn it off. Even then there was a way to deal with it and one a single T1 into the complex.

With today's hardware it's even easier...and in so many cases cheaper.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

You have other linksys WAPs in the office? Sounds like a good time to replace them with Ubiquiti devices...

Any excuse is a good excuse to deploy Ubiquiti

@thecreativeone91 said:

Yeah I would put the linksys in the trash bin. Get something with a interface to manage them all.

That is the plan... however - one major under taking at a time....

Which version of Outlook / Office? 2010 or 2013?
I don't have that view up either as it seems to be a pain and takes up space...

@Hubtech said:

how'd you find it?

It was a cross of things really.

About 2 or so months ago the intern (I heard that groan) had some issues with wireless and was compelled to reset the unit. Only instead of just unplugging it, he hit the reset button. No big deal even in the default mode... Until last week (OP date) when for what ever reason I started having DHCP issues. It was offering DHCP in the 192.168 schema when our network is in the 10.0 schema.

While it took some time to find just that, I started with a PC that was in the 192.168 and went to the IP, and found that it was the Linksys system.

I didn't have any means of tracing the AP signal until I brought in my Kindle, Isolated it, and got more into the back info and found that the Device was the unit. I had walked around that day, but even with the AP model, it didn't completely register that it was this.

With the WiFi analyzer on the Kindle I confirmed it after powering it off.

If I had taken the time to slow down that day and noted the model number I might have caught it sooner. Having so many different device types for wireless and such makes it a challenge.

Boils down to I found it using Sneaker Net....

@Hubtech said:

OK, Essentially I can't get a restore to work, here's the info:

• Server 2008 x64 SP2

• Backup Software - BackupAssist

• Backup Hardware - Imation RDX External USB 2.0

So I have a question about the RDX box,

What are you thoughts on it and it's throughput? are they decent enough? I've used the 'clone' from Dell RDX 1000 on the SATA bus.

Found it, it was a AP that was in the conference room.. Oddly enough it had been reset and was working for about 2 or three months before it started being a problem.

It's been locked down, and updated. and a Do Not Reset placed over the button.

@Minion-Queen said:

Wow no stories yet. I am guessing you are all too tired to function yet. Everyone I have seen looks half dead.

Sadly, I was denied (by being ignored) attendance...
Maybe next year.

I have:

• AStest
• Speedtest
• LanScan
• Portscan
• Ping Lite
• Subnet Calc
• Cloud (Dropbox, Box.net)
• TeamViewer
• Office

With the release of iOS 8, and the recent talk about the different iOS devices we all seem to have -

What are some of the tools you have for day to day IT troubleshooting?

@Dashrender said:

@g.jacobse said:

@JaredBusch said:

@Hubtech said:

I had one of these pop up at a client a month or so ago. whoever configured the switches didn't leave their login info so i wasn't able to use the management. ended up super sleuthing and found it by using a "sniffer" that basically just polled the stregnth of the AP. old school

I would do this. turn the wifi back on and sniff the signal.

Since it looks like I"ll be here half the weekend, I may do this. of course that is if I can reach it... I'm about to dig out a unused box to see if I can still reach it and go from there. My hope is that someone will figure out they aren't getting what they used to and call someone and ask - or call me about it. that would be nice and 'fast'.
Otherwise it'll have to be sniffed. Which I don't really have gear for.. If I can find my kindle, it may help being a poor mans triangulation...

Ping the IP of the Linksys, then type arp -a | findstr IPADDRESS
this will tell you the MAC of the device. Then go to your switch(es) and look through their MAC tables to find what port that MAC is on. Then look at your building map for that port location, done.

If I wasn't still someone miffed and other choice words I won't use I'd laugh...

Uhm... I don't have one. It would really be nice to have one,.. but with all the spot fires and 'crash' calls... I don't get time to address things like that.... Some day maybe... if I survive that long.

@JaredBusch said:

@Hubtech said:

I had one of these pop up at a client a month or so ago. whoever configured the switches didn't leave their login info so i wasn't able to use the management. ended up super sleuthing and found it by using a "sniffer" that basically just polled the stregnth of the AP. old school

I would do this. turn the wifi back on and sniff the signal.

Since it looks like I"ll be here half the weekend, I may do this. of course that is if I can reach it... I'm about to dig out a unused box to see if I can still reach it and go from there. My hope is that someone will figure out they aren't getting what they used to and call someone and ask - or call me about it. that would be nice and 'fast'.
Otherwise it'll have to be sniffed. Which I don't really have gear for.. If I can find my kindle, it may help being a poor mans triangulation...

@ajstringham said:

@Hubtech said:

@g.jacobse said:

This morning fun-escaped was half the network was down for some reason. Won't recount most of it, but it boils down to an Linksys WRX54 device was sending out DHCP in the 192.168 arena. Our network is configured to 10.0, so the change in IP was throwing people into oblivian when trying to get to servers or the internet. Others were 'ok' for most things.

Searched around the office for the offending device (person) but wasn't able to locate it. I had a PC that was pulling DHCP from it which is how I knew what type of device it was. Using a browser I attempted to log in... but failed.

It took about 20 minutes of cycling USERID and passwords to come upon the default USERID (blank) and password. I was in and could take it down.

I don't know where it is,.. but I've turned off DHCP, the wireless and changed the Admin Password. There were no listed DHCP leases.

It's been a fun morning.

Question: Is there some way to prevent this from occurring?

dont use dhcp.

DHCP is standard in an environment. No real good way to avoid using it unless you want to manage static IPs for every device and workstation. That's way more hassle than it's worth.

** It's likely someone plugged in the device** thinking it was a switch, or to bypass the company wifi, or to just get a wifi signal for their phone where they can't normally get one.

Oops - I may have left that out. That is what I suspect - I havea EdgeMAX lite running DHCP currently. This just popped up out of no where..