Mentally I just keep saying to myself; "ok, just remember, you get paid by the hour" when I deal with that type of client. It's hard when user accounts have been renamed multiple times all over the place, sharing is done via thumb drive and the Shared Documents folder, multiple and different revisions of otherwise the same document exist all over the place, and the client wants one or more persons in the office to have admin access. And they're the one person who inside you know is going to screw stuff up. Or they all do. And they don't understand why they have to pay for a phone call (read: 20 calls) for something simple like helping $localAdminBoy to install yet another shared inkjet printer for everyone to print to. But they pay, or they can fire me. And in those circumstances I don't mind.
Most sane people can be convinced that investing ~$3K into a basic server, that you can save them money and just put them on a maintenance contract which is going to be far less than what they are probably paying you per month now. Sorry for the sidetrack. I feel your pain. -- Mike Gill From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can't browse workgroup Yeah I pretty much went through all that on the new PC. I think I may find the problem when I get access to the \\ANVAR-PC <file:///\\ANVAR-PC> , at least I hope so anyway. Man I hate peer to peer. These guys have like 20 PCs and no server, its a real mess, I'm starting to regret taking it on. James ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
