Re: HDD Crashed- Trying to figure out what IP/Hostname was

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In news:1BA95EEE-145B-4376-9C82-CF71F11AE49A@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Slackjaw <Slackjaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

Doubtful you will be able to find this, although someone else may
post. Does this really matter? What's the point? If you're using
static IPs on your network, for some reason, you ought to be keeping
track of them somehow (text file/spreadsheet/etc). DHCP makes life a
LOT easier.


Thanks for nothing.

Not "nothing" - I replied to your question.

This is for a new customer I just got a call from. They have ZERO
documentation. Yes I know DHCP is better, but I have no choice at
this time.

OK - but what's the reason they so desperately need to know this in the
first place? What was this computer doing, that this can't just be
reconfigured? If they have no documentation, no full backups, no DHCP
server, well, you can probably get them up and running again, but it's not
going to be seamless or free, and perhaps it will be a valuable lesson to
them that a) documentation b) backups are a necessity.



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