on hating hardware

[perlmonger]

Not much I can add to what ramtops has already written, but our day of hardware hell seems to be almost over - if that’s not tempting fate.

I’ve been without computer all day, too, as I keep /home on the server that died. Nice to see this box spring back into life without a qualm though, as soon as the rebodied detritus appeared. Can’t say the same about Windows; our PDC is complaining that it’s lost its “trust relationship” with the box. Different MAC address, maybe, but I haven’t the brainpower right now to do anything about it.

Never mind about setting up the new SATA disks as a RAID1 pair, migrating the linux install onto them and swapping out the old drive so I can connect the (PATA) internal removable backup drive. And whatever else needs doing that I haven’t thought of yet.

Hardware. Hate. HATE. Hatety Hate McHate.

Comments

[spride.livejournal.com]

What OS is the Windows side? You say "PDC" which implies NT4. MAC address has nothing to do with it, BTW.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

W2KAS.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Samba's running in domain auth mode, and it turns out that all that was needed was a "net rpc join -Uuser%password" at the linux end to rejoin the domain.

[spride.livejournal.com]

Ah, I thought you'd tried that and it failed.