Posts made by G I Jones

@dustinb3403 yea that would work too. the problem I seem to have about assigning ip that aren't in the available pool has always been how to see what ip's are being used. we have a big organization and some things I don't have my fingers in. I would hate to statically assign an IP to something that was already using it on accident.

@hobbit666 I see. Is there any benefits to doing exclude ip over just setting reservations in your opinion?

@pete-s said in DHCP Logic:

It's another question but it's debatable if DHCP reservations is a good idea in the first place. In general I would say no.
Better to use static IPs, at least for anything that is important.

I disagree entirely. Here's why. You rely on a static IP for a printer right? Because you don't want them switching up all the time, but printers do go to standby mode, and then now you have a samsung phone (seems to always be the damn samsungs) that steals that IP and now the printer doesn't work. Happens all the time. I typically do both; I'll set a static IP for a printer, and then make the reservation on the DHCP server. This way nothing steals it. Additionally I'll do this same thing with anything of importance that has a static IP.

@dustinb3403 yea, I'm not confused about anything DHCP, just what scott said and what he meant.

@dustinb3403 yea, that's exactly what I was saying, but I'm confused about what scott said. I don't get why he said that. Like no bearing on what?

@dustinb3403 lol, trying to figure things out, man.

@scottalanmiller said in DHCP Logic:

@g-i-jones said in DHCP Logic:

@scottalanmiller Nah, you can set them outside the scope or in the scope. I prefer to put them outside the scope because i like to think i have my own little secret cubbyhole for IP's that no one can take, and I strive for super organization.

Being in or out of scope has no bearing on that.

What are you referring to?

@scottalanmiller Nah, you can set them outside the scope or in the scope. I prefer to put them outside the scope because i like to think i have my own little secret cubbyhole for IP's that no one can take, and I strive for super organization.

I have more experience than my coworker with DHCP, so I don't know why I let him try to convince me what I already knew was wrong. I think I forgot to take my B vitamins yesterday lol. Anyway, thanks for the reply's.

@dustinb3403 haha, yea that was a little rough, but I hear you.

Thank you all.

A coworker and I are having a disagreement about something and I wanted to get you all's expert opinions/experiences.

I've set a DHCP reservation for something important, but that thing is within the scope of the DHCP address pool. (bad setup I know, but I'm gonna fix that). Anyway, he said even if there is a reservation, if that thing goes to sleep, then other things can still snatch up that IP address because it's in the pool. I didn't think that's how reservations worked. Please advise.

@scottalanmiller just checked this out on Steam. I might just buy this. Reminds me of that old PC game - The Legend of Kyrandia: The Hand of Fate.

@zachary715 I confirmed that this was the issue across the board. Changed to Automatic Start and no more issues.

Currently Playing: The Order:1886 - Got it on sale in the Playstation Store. Really nice aesthetics.

I was playing Far Cry 5 on PS4, which released Far Cry 3 as DLC, so I played that too, then figured why not and played through Far Cry 4, and Far Cry Primal while I was at it. If I had to choose Primal was the best.

Hosting: Minecraft. The Boss approved us to run a Minecraft Server on an old server we had laying around at work. Usually if we have free time we'll play around in there. 1.13 looks good!

Looking To Play: Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption 2, Fallout 76 (huge Fallout fan)

Building a walkway in front of my house. 70" wide, 51' in length 9" deep. It's been a lot of work, but I'm roughly at the halfway point (got the hole dug, 6" of gravel put in, about to put on the landscape tarp, and add an inch of leveling sand and then the pavers. I think this will be the weekend I really put a dent in it, haha.

@pete-s Services>Remote Desktop Services>Properties>Startup Type was set to Manual on all the servers. ::man_facepalming_medium_skin_tone:

Haven't tested it yet, but if I had to guess, that'd be the issue. Thanks!

Having an issue that I'm not sure is "the nature of the beast", but rather my own ignorance swinging back to smack me in the face.

After restarting any of our servers, you are not able to remote into them until you have logged in with Admin credentials on the servers locally (within VMware web portal for the VM's). This affects both bare metal and VM servers, and it's an issue whether I try remoting into them from Windows 7 client, or Windows 10 client with my credentials, or any of my fellow Admins.

This leads me to believe that I've not set the Allow Remote Desktop Connections up correctly, or missed a step somewhere.

Here's what I've done:

"Allow remote connections to this computer" - Checked

"Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (recommended) - Checked

Under "Select Users" I have all of our individual Admin usernames added, as well as the Domain Admins Security Group (which each of the Admin users are a part of). Example: CONTOSO\gijones, CONTOSO\myboss, CONTOSO\Domain Admins.

Honestly this is only a slight annoyance, but being who I am I feel like I want to know if there is something I'm doing wrong here. Any help would be appreciated.

@dbeato Bro, thank you!