Hard core bathrooms right there.

If things are already that out of date, go with Samba. Skip the Windows updates. Great chance to save money over the long term now that no one is used to having modern Windows options available.

In a word: yes.

@BRRABill said in DC DNS Settings:

@fuznutz04 said in DC DNS Settings:

Adding to this:

I've also always point the primary to 127.0.0.1 and secondary to the secondary controller. If no secondary controller, then a public DNS.

Funny there are so many ways to do this that don't break it.

That don't break it.... right away.

That was a close one. Did you figure out what stopped it?

It is not KVM or RHEV. RHEV is just a package of KVM. Those are two KVM options.

@johnhooks said:

This is a beauty http://www.djfixxx.com/

This, but, I, he.... doh.....

This must be archived...

XS may not be complete, but isn't it the "most complete" of all options available?

@johnhooks said:

Remember, if you're looking for his DJ site it's not that one.

Oh right, it's the other one. This site is the ..... what is this one?

If you have no support options and get desperate, you could try some really desperate things like wiping the array controller and forcing it to pick up the array as if it had never had drives before. That might work, but it is risky and I would not do it unless you have exhausted other options.

Don't forget that what we were looking at was the first iteration of his site. There is a new one. Thank goodness it got updated...

I think that books are decent for learning the concepts. They help you to not miss things that you need to pick up along the way. BUt you can only do so much from a book. There are good ReactJS online learning resources, I would start there and see if they don't meet the need.

This was an.... improvement? He actually sat down, took the time to make this second site to replace the first one?

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

@Reid-Cooper said in Offline files nightmare:

Have you considered a more modern syncing alternative? DropBox, ownCloud, NextCloud, Box, or any number of similar services? I think that most of these handle these scenarios more elegantly. I know that this is a big change rather than a "fix", but maybe it is worth considering?

I really would love to move to something like that. I've always had fine experiences with syncing to services like Dropbox/OneDrive/Google Drive/etc. We're pretty rooted into the pragmatic setup of on-premises file shares. I also get asked the hard question of "why doesn't this work? It's worked this way for years." To which I don't have an answer, also because I have never had so many users with offline files, and so many people bringing home their laptops every night.

Maybe I'm just venting... I donno. This one has me worn out mentally. I'm so sick of it.

You can have sync services like that that are also on premises file shares. Doesn't have to be one or the other.

First the Apple Watch would tell you when to get up and stretch. But the new feature that you need is that it reminds you when to get up and eat something!

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

@Reid-Cooper said in Offline files nightmare:

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

@Reid-Cooper said in Offline files nightmare:

Have you considered a more modern syncing alternative? DropBox, ownCloud, NextCloud, Box, or any number of similar services? I think that most of these handle these scenarios more elegantly. I know that this is a big change rather than a "fix", but maybe it is worth considering?

I really would love to move to something like that. I've always had fine experiences with syncing to services like Dropbox/OneDrive/Google Drive/etc. We're pretty rooted into the pragmatic setup of on-premises file shares. I also get asked the hard question of "why doesn't this work? It's worked this way for years." To which I don't have an answer, also because I have never had so many users with offline files, and so many people bringing home their laptops every night.

Maybe I'm just venting... I donno. This one has me worn out mentally. I'm so sick of it.

You can have sync services like that that are also on premises file shares. Doesn't have to be one or the other.

Sorry, what I meant by on-premises I meant the standard Windows file services. I should have clarified. Because the question comes up "why would we need to invest in anything? We've always just used Windows file services, setup namespaces/target servers with DFS, and that was that..." To which, I don't really have a good answer why syncing just all of a sudden stops one day.

Then counter that there is not necessarily anything to invest in. Just change what you use. Sounds like they don't want it fixed. Would fixing what is there be considered an investment in fixing it?

I'm parking in the wrong places, clearly.

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

@Reid-Cooper said in Offline files nightmare:

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

@Reid-Cooper said in Offline files nightmare:

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

@Reid-Cooper said in Offline files nightmare:

Have you considered a more modern syncing alternative? DropBox, ownCloud, NextCloud, Box, or any number of similar services? I think that most of these handle these scenarios more elegantly. I know that this is a big change rather than a "fix", but maybe it is worth considering?

I really would love to move to something like that. I've always had fine experiences with syncing to services like Dropbox/OneDrive/Google Drive/etc. We're pretty rooted into the pragmatic setup of on-premises file shares. I also get asked the hard question of "why doesn't this work? It's worked this way for years." To which I don't have an answer, also because I have never had so many users with offline files, and so many people bringing home their laptops every night.

Maybe I'm just venting... I donno. This one has me worn out mentally. I'm so sick of it.

You can have sync services like that that are also on premises file shares. Doesn't have to be one or the other.

Sorry, what I meant by on-premises I meant the standard Windows file services. I should have clarified. Because the question comes up "why would we need to invest in anything? We've always just used Windows file services, setup namespaces/target servers with DFS, and that was that..." To which, I don't really have a good answer why syncing just all of a sudden stops one day.

Would fixing what is there be considered an investment in fixing it?

Asking that, the counter is "we already made the investment setting it up, so it shouldn't need to be altered."

But another aspect would rise I would think, and that's 'continued investment'.

That's the same as saying "don't fix it." So if they complain say "you decided not to fix it, this is what you want."

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@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

@Reid-Cooper said in Offline files nightmare:

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

@Reid-Cooper said in Offline files nightmare:

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

But another aspect would rise I would think, and that's 'continued investment'.

That's just an alias for the "sunk cost fallacy."

I'm guessing you're talking about a sunken cost is one thing, but sinking more and more money into something because you are already invested in it? Say you spend $2k on something, but the operating cost is (with labor) $4k per year to keep it going, when you could invest $3k into something different which doesn't require that continued cost... That what you mean, roughly?

So the sunk cost idea is really crazy because the amount spent before means nothing

That was a much better way of putting it. Even after I sent my reply, I was thinking "how do I say what I'm trying to say..."

I think the way to frame the issue (which you should never have to do to business people, they should be doing this to you not the other way around) is to show what it costs to get where you need to be "from here", not from a theoretical time in the past. The past decisions are already made, they can't be changed. And if what they did in the past cost nothing or millions doesn't change anything, what matters is where you are now and where you need to go from here.