[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?

[Michael H. Collins]

Keep your server on a ups and all the workstations diskless ala LTSP and 
never worry again.

With ice on the desktop lusers think they have windows.
A power outage, and all the machines come back to login gui. no Drives 
to fsck.

have fun



Richard Geoffrion wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Cox" <cjcox at acm.org>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?
> 
> 
> 
>>Richard Geoffrion wrote:
>>
>>>ok.. MY .02..
>>>
>>>M$ Wingnuts products ARE in fact much easier to use.  Here's a simple
>>>scenario.
>>>
> oops...let me re-phrase that.
> 
> M$ Desktop operating systems ARE in fact much easier for the end user to
> use.
> 
> 
> 
>>You know... hooking up the Windows98SE platform via
>>dhcp to the VALinux box that it has no facility for
>>picking up the DNS being advertised by the server?
>>Linux as a client picks it up just fine.
>>Oh well... another mystery... I'd turn on the debug
>>messages...ooops, I forgot, it's Windows.
>>
>>
> 
> BTW, the Win98SE DHCP driver (vdhcp.386) is broken.  Use a Win98FE vdhcp.386
> instead.
> I've done a packet trace of the communications between a W98SE box and a
> Linux DHCP server that was across a router.  I saw where the request was
> made and the offer given, but the ACK was never sent by the W98SE client.
> Can you say BRo*KeN.
> 
> And HEY! I'm all for Linux becoming easier to use and replacing W* at the
> desktop.
> .06 + .02 = .08
> 
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