Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:48:23 +1300 | | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | | Subject | Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment?? |
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 05:12:39PM +0100, Olaf Titz wrote:
> If you do anything else than Windows-based pure client apps you > very quickly need static addresses.
Why? I really don't see any goog arguement for this whatsoever.
> I've worked in an institution where addresses were assigned > dynamically, no working DNS available and certain privileges > (access to critical servers) were assigned _by IP address_. On some > days we had to work more on getting basic networking running again > and especially the confusion over IP addresses resolved than doing > our development work. No thanks.
And I work in a building with probably over 1000 machines connected to the network, most of which are windows based and have their address assigned by DHCP, whilst some others are statically configured.
> Of course it would be possible to do this all with a correctly > functioning dynamic DNS based setup, but unless Window$ 200x does > this out of the box and does it _right_ this won't happen in the > real world.
Actually -- it does. I got two laptops the other day, both pre-installed with Windows 2000. I turned them on, enter a few silly questions (machine name, password, etc.), inserted the PCMCIA network/modem card and once it had installed the driver plugged it in to the network -- at which point it did the DHCP request and everything pretty much worked as expected.
The only think I had to manually configure was the web-browser and that could be automated too if someone really desired.
-cw
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