RE: Win2K SP1 client...

2000-10-24 Thread James Keagan 

How long is the lease on your DHCP server?  I know many network admins have
their DHCP server set up to give out new IP addresses when the lease
expires.  I saw this same problem on my configuration and narrowed it down
to:

1. The IP address expired before the machine was turned off/restarted, AND
2. The machines are set to get a different IP address every time the lease
expires, or the machine gets restarted.

I think what happens is that the Retrospect client binds to the IP address
at startup.  If the IP address changes, the client won't know the new IP
address until it's restarted.  Irena, is this correct?

This might also explain why the laptops work since they are probably turned
on and off more frequently then desktops.  I remedied all this by just
giving back the same IP address after the lease expires.  I guess you could
also extend the lease period and just hope the users shut down/restart their
computer before the lease expired.  By the way, my lease time is 3 days, but
I've see admins use much longer time periods like 7 or 10 days.

Hope this helps.
J.

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Of Martijn Lina
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:45 AM
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Subject: Win2K SP1 client...


Is anybody aware of problems with Win2K SP1 clients? They don't show up in
the
servers client-add list, unless i restart the client, manually. This is only
on
Win2K systems with SP1 installed and don't have a static ip address. Maybe
it's
got something to do with the fact that they are in a subnet (mask
255.255.255.128/bcast x.x.x.127).

The client upgrade to 5.15 didn't help... O yeah! very important, it appears
to
work perfectly well with laptops, running Win2K SP1 on the same subnet. The
only difference compared to the desktops is that their NIC runs at 11MBit/s
instead of 100MBit/s

martijn.


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RE: Mac Client Uptdate - for Irena

2000-10-18 Thread James Keagan 

I think what Irena was trying to say is that you must manually restart the
Mac clients before the change takes effect.  The Windows clients have two
separate .rcu files: one that will automatically restart the computer and
one that requires a manual reboot.  And correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't
the Windows client service completely stop until reboot, while the Mac
client can continue operating even if there has not been a reboot (it will
still be the same version, though)?

J.

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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Mac Client Uptdate - for Irena


Hi Irena,

Will they reboot automatically upon installation of the update, or they can
be
restarted manually? We are talking about Mac clients only. Your answer was
great, but ambiguous. Sorry :-(

Thanks again, Ben

Irena Solomon wrote:

 Hi Ben,

 Yes, Mac clients must be restarted for the updated client software to load
 and run.

 Irena Solomon
 Dantz Development Corporation
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  Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:43:39 -0400
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  Subject: Mac Client Uptdate
 
  Hi all,
 
  If I embark on updating all the Mac clients over the network, do the Mac
  clients need to be restarted, like the Windoz ones?
 
  Ben
 
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