Re: More Traps for Young(ish) Players

N. Hughes wrote:
> Recently completed a largish SBS2003 install - all new IBM XP
> workstations, nice HP ML350G4 server (with grunt - though I wish HP
> would give us the option to dispense with all their add-ons...).
> Since the old peer-to-peer network already had broadband, the new
> network set up nice and easily. (Yes, when nothing goes wrong, you
> worry what's wrong...) But all worked well - except RWW. Rechecked
> everything -reran the wizards, checked the router. Found that we
> could access the server via TS and VPN, but no RWW. Upgraded router
> firmware, checked Netgear's website for tips - you know the drill,
> wasted hours on this, thinking it was our fault and the client of
> course was expecting work under warrantee.
>
> Ran a port scanner - that's funny - all ports under 1024 totally
> blocked. Router stuffed? Tried a new one, same problem. Wasn't DNS -
> couldn't even access the site via IP address. Put on brave face and
> enquired from client all about the deal with his ISP. Turns out that
> he hadn't been aware of it - so he said - but he had forgotten that
> this particular ISP has a "supa deal" whereby small businesses, for
> just $19.95/month, could utilise the ISP's firewall...
> AAARRGGGHHHH!!!!!!
>
> The worst part of this is that the client thinks all our wasted time
> is OK, because all the gear is still under warrantee... (message
> ends with quiet sobbing.)

Don't you hate it when it's something simple?
Re HP extra doodads - I always reinstall any "prebuilt" server OS/etc,
always have, with any version of Windows server.


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