Posts made by DustinB3403

Yeah... for some odd reason here, there is a policy that IT needs to have every 3rd party login credentials for those "Oh crap" moments that something may go wrong.

Now without getting into the argument of password management or anything along those lines. I don't even care to question the fact that this request more than certainly flies in the face of every corporate policy out there in regards to passwords.

Someone here at some point made it mandatory that IT be aware of every client login credential that we have access too. And no matter how many times I've said its incredibly stupid to have such a policy it won't be changed.

I had another simple issue today that one of my users simply was to lazy to do anything about.

A 3rd party client of ours provides access to their systems for testing / training and what have you. Well my user received an email today saying "Your account password is going to expire, click here to reset it.

Instead of doing this himself, he creates a help desk ticket.

I see the ticket and reply with : What was the original password for this account "

The user replies with "my username is ##### and the password is XXXXX"

I reply with "You new password is YYYYY" all while thinking what a lazy bastard.

If I was going I'd split a room.

Just curious if there is an app for Droid for MangoLassi.it

So our backup system is having some issues right now, particularly its full as shit, had a power failure that cause the incremental to fail.

MSP Emails at 5PM last Friday saying "Oh hey this failed". Boss replies "can you call me" (rather than calling our MSP. . . granted he had to get ready for a work trip out of the country but what ever)

Doesn't receive a call back immediately. Text me yesterday and says take one of our Backup drives (standalone single USB LaCie drive, which this is crap because than we'd be eating last weeks backups) and connect it directly to our server oh and "It has to be 4TB".

Well bad new for you boss these and every other external drive we have on site caps out at 2TB, do you want me to run to best buy and pick one up just to cover us. (Granted not what the hardware is built for but new is better than nothing so we can build a new incremental)

Long story short, I'm emailing the MSP and my Boss this morning to get more information on what needs to be done, and haven't heard back, that was about 30 minutes ago.

Great times, just great....

Conkers Bad Fur day was such an awesome game.

Not yet, asked the boss and he said let it run for a few hours. . .

Yes Windows running NTFS

Yeah windows file server / DC / print server / USB Network Share host on consumer grade equipment......

Yeah as someone else said, the decision to put company archive data on an external consumer grade drive simply means that the data is expendable...

So if everyone is at a loss, 'here's to the best'

We're letting it run for a bit to see if it is trying to rebuild the Array

as nothing else seems to really fit

That was sarcasm guys...

Well my concern is that it could be rebuilding the RAID and that the Red LED is just dead. But I've never had an LED go, on anything ever..

So my concern is that if we drop it, and reconnect it then we'll end up having to try recovering from backup.

Edit: Boss just told me this drive isn't backed up..... (because RAID is it's own backup... isn't it)

Yes, and the drive shows 220 GB used, but when you look at any folder on the drive, they are all showing 0 bytes used.

And the system view shows 1.8TB Total Capacity as expected, and 1.6TB Available.

The trouble is this drive (and don't get me started on it) was purchased and setup with the intent of it being a USB networked share off of one of our DC's.

And seemed to have worked without issue until we just noticed this.

So it has important information there, albeit archived information.

OK so one of our LaCie's 2Big Quadra is acting odd.

The drive has folders, appears to be using space but when you go into any of the folders they're empty. Yet list's that 220GB are used.

The front of the unit has a Long Blue LED, Off, Long Blue LED, and this repeats. Each Long Blue is 5 seconds maybe.

Of the rear LEDs one is rapidly flashing, the other is solid. Both are Blue.

Has anyone seen this? It doesn't match up with any of the documentation I can find.

Here's the "Quick Install Guide"

He should open a store, that offers 15% less than the Big Box stores too!

Best reputation in town

The I must start looking for other places because everything I've ever been at wants / seems to want IT to do everything (or just about everything possible) so that the user / salesperson / accountant etc etc can "do their jobs"

@scottalanmiller True, but by not having and applying said soft skills it becomes "Well I asked IT and they refused to help"

Which doesn't get anything done, because management expects IT to help whenever applicable.

Soft skills are absolutely something that will be learned from personal experience. It shouldn't be required that an adult, who pays taxes, cooks food, drives, has kdis etc needs to have their hand held for simple tasks like connecting power.