xfsamba & samba strangeness follow-up <way OT>

[Collins]

On 12 Nov 2002 16:24:28 -0500 Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 10:51, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> 
> > Here at work it's funny how when somebody has a problem in her
> > computer it inexplicably vanishes when I get to the screen. 8-) 
> 
> 	At my part-time job they have mostly Win2K systems.  For
> 	reasons only
> the the great byte monster knows, whenever I have to work on one of
> the systems it will be totally hosed after 30 minutes.  Nothing I
> try will get it back up.  I have learned that all I need is to get
> one of the NT Admin's to come and stand next to me while I reboot. 
> Then everything is fine and dandy.  The system will work fine after
> that.  Maybe the OS knows what I think of it and is trying to get
> back at me.
> 

I'm not a big fan of Dapper Bill's Delights, but we have mostly Win2K
systems at work, and other than the Eternally L-O-N-G boot time, they
are quite reliable.  Usually the only flaky software is Outlook.  One
or more of the Outlook servers locks up regularly.  One of the keys to
reliability is this: mine is a laptop which travels to and fro with
me, so it gets booted regularly.  I haven't seen an admin since my
laptop was delivered a couple of years back.  I'm sure I wouldn't be
as happy if the machine stayed powered on continuously.  Fortunately,
our admins do a bang up job of keeping our machines up to date with
virus protect data. so virii are few and far between.


-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Redhat 7.3 system