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camwynToday the Win2000 servers had to be rebooted. That was fine. I did that.
While they rebooted, I rebooted the Netware 4.11 server. I had some weird messages about the backup software and I needed to detach the Netware server from a hub anyway; the hub belongs to our techsupp outside firm and needs to go back on Monday.
Netware server reboots. No one can properly get into it. An hour and a half later I realize that this is probably because I have plugged the wrong network card into the wall - there are two in the server.
Fixing this does not help. Perhaps the fact that I used the crossover cable instead of a regular one?
No, that does not help either. Much cursing and swearing later all I am left with is a pair of merrily bright lights on the actual network card, and a message that appears at reboot about an NDS failure. I call outside techsupp and leave a message at their office and on their netware person's cell phone. I try to find answers on Novell's support site but it does not help much.
I go to lunch. I pay my car insurance ($276.79 for 1/4 of the year - this includes my defensive driving discount, a whopping $20 for the whole year). I get my lunch. It is a steak sandwich with hot sauce and blue cheese dressing. I turn out to have left my ATM card in my other bag (I used it at Starbucks in the morning) but it is all right because a co-worker is behind me on line and covers my bill (about $8 - sammitch, Blair's Death Rain BBQ Potato Chips, mint Snapple).
I get back. No word from techsupp. Some of the sammitch sauce gets on my shirt but it mostly washes out.
As I am trying to get the server to be visible to my users again - thankfully only four or five people are currently affected at all by this - the chapter CEO asks me to see to a co-worker's printer 'unless you're doing something big'. As I have had no success since 9:30 AM in making the server visible I see no reason to fuss over it further and go to the co-worker.
The paper jam that is blocking a massively important print job is too far under the thermal unit of death (laser printer) for the co-worker to get out w/tweezers. I use a paperclip and it comes out. Yay MacGyver. Unfortunately the back of the printer sports a loose panel that requires ten minutes of wrestling to fit back into place. Stupid Lexmark. Stupid orcs.
Still not on server.
On the bright side I got Seventh Curse in the mail today, along with a biiiiig anthropological text called Together With The Ainu. This is Cool. This will help a lot with VicMage.Asia. This improves today, my 29th birthday, considerably.
Now if I can just get the !&*() server to work again all will be well.
While they rebooted, I rebooted the Netware 4.11 server. I had some weird messages about the backup software and I needed to detach the Netware server from a hub anyway; the hub belongs to our techsupp outside firm and needs to go back on Monday.
Netware server reboots. No one can properly get into it. An hour and a half later I realize that this is probably because I have plugged the wrong network card into the wall - there are two in the server.
Fixing this does not help. Perhaps the fact that I used the crossover cable instead of a regular one?
No, that does not help either. Much cursing and swearing later all I am left with is a pair of merrily bright lights on the actual network card, and a message that appears at reboot about an NDS failure. I call outside techsupp and leave a message at their office and on their netware person's cell phone. I try to find answers on Novell's support site but it does not help much.
I go to lunch. I pay my car insurance ($276.79 for 1/4 of the year - this includes my defensive driving discount, a whopping $20 for the whole year). I get my lunch. It is a steak sandwich with hot sauce and blue cheese dressing. I turn out to have left my ATM card in my other bag (I used it at Starbucks in the morning) but it is all right because a co-worker is behind me on line and covers my bill (about $8 - sammitch, Blair's Death Rain BBQ Potato Chips, mint Snapple).
I get back. No word from techsupp. Some of the sammitch sauce gets on my shirt but it mostly washes out.
As I am trying to get the server to be visible to my users again - thankfully only four or five people are currently affected at all by this - the chapter CEO asks me to see to a co-worker's printer 'unless you're doing something big'. As I have had no success since 9:30 AM in making the server visible I see no reason to fuss over it further and go to the co-worker.
The paper jam that is blocking a massively important print job is too far under the thermal unit of death (laser printer) for the co-worker to get out w/tweezers. I use a paperclip and it comes out. Yay MacGyver. Unfortunately the back of the printer sports a loose panel that requires ten minutes of wrestling to fit back into place. Stupid Lexmark. Stupid orcs.
Still not on server.
On the bright side I got Seventh Curse in the mail today, along with a biiiiig anthropological text called Together With The Ainu. This is Cool. This will help a lot with VicMage.Asia. This improves today, my 29th birthday, considerably.
Now if I can just get the !&*() server to work again all will be well.
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Date: 2003-05-09 11:57 am (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2003-05-09 12:01 pm (UTC)NetWare is a wonderful thing. It stays up forever and never gives me a moment's trouble. Until it does and then it is a real bitch - not least because I have hardly touched it in 6-12 months and can barely remember the commands for it. They are lodged somewhere in my brain amongst the MS and UNIX.
Wish I could offer some advice, but NDS failure sounds a little out of my depth. Good luck!
- J
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