as above, mate selling his house, kitchen needs doing and bathroom, 3 separate estate agents said dont bother doing them up, the buyer will want to put their own stamp on the house.

you never know…

IMO go with branded, there are a host of mad ones from far away lands on ebay that look nice in theory but are a bag of sh*t.

i learnt the hard way!

2nd house, nothing to do DIY wise and double garage would do it for me!

aaaahhhhhh, i’ll check when i get home but the settings i changed were specifically for the HUB that appeared when it did a scan

cheers, i just got it working on my phone, just gave it a static and the dns and gateway and it works!

its a secret connection anyway just for the chosen few ;)

aaahhh spoke too soon, not a major thing…

it seems since turning off DHCP on the BT hub it seems any wireless device cannot gain an IP address?

is there a way round this?

24 hours later….

i wouldnt bother if there is only 5 of you, we had a trial and our internet was crap and the line was fekin terrible.

:-)

i nearly lost it there at one point!

To all that helped…

Without tempting fate everything seems to be working, shared drives on Server B instant access.

Looks like everything has sorted itself, IPCONFIG on my PC shows an IP of .54 and DNS of .9 server A

Fingers crossed…

Many, many thanks once again

just noticed, some XP machines dont seem to be effected?

my PC is WIN 7 just tried the sales shared drive on Sever B it failed, went to an XP machine it was fine.

as typing this checked again and mines connected again!

cheers ‘again’

and if possible from the hub restart the dns and dhcp services

sadly all you can do it manually ‘restart’ or just pull the plug.

damn, just checked shared drives to server B again and it red x and wont connect.

i guess restarting both servers and hub tonight will help?

Do you know if BT has quietly updated your hub?

just read this sorry…

i dont know is the honest answer but i know Bt did a hug roll out to office 365 and it messed up loads of email. saying that the hub must have been updated as the content filtering option has gone.

GROUP HUG if i could…

cough…

nbtstat -a 192.168.1.9

did that and it did come back with the server name

i just restarted my PC and it logged on ok and came back with all the correct IP settings when i did IPCONFIG /ALL

also it connected straight away to a shared drive on Server B (hopefully it will keep this setting)

right i need to go onto server A and change the lease (hands shaking), just to check…as suggested I should changed the current scope..

192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.253

to

192.168.1.50 > 192.168.1.150 (just to give some leeway as we have a good number of printers etc)

oh i just turned off DHCP in the HUB

you have overlapped the dhcp lease range with your statically assigned IP’s

your range from that screenshot is from 192.168.1.0 – 254

so you’ll be trying to give out 192.168.1.4 and 1.9 to client PC’s

configure manually and start the leases for clients at 192.168.1.50 – 100 or something, you don’t need all 254 IP’s anyhow.

this makes sense, so……

even though ive given both server static IP’s .9 & .4 could in theory still be given out to a ‘client’?

Anything in the event logs: either on the clients or the servers?

sorry forgot to answer earlier…

On Server A (DC) there are no obvious errors

However on Server B it is giving event ID 2012 SRV

the message it gives basically says there are network errors and as there are so many it is giving this warning.

is there a command prompt thing i can use to ping and see if more than one device is using 192.168.1.9?

thanks for all the help, its given me light at the end of the tunnel..

a few more…

if i turn DHCP off on the hub OR decide to do it on the DC, I assume all client shave to restart log on etc for changes to take effect.

the reason i ask is that im doing on these changes LIVE (everyone is in working)

think i really should leave it as it is and stay on late and sort it.

cheers again, much appreciated.

cheers again, my brain is starting to fry.. :)

stupid question again…

how come all shared folders on Server A (the DC) are fine?

Cheers all again.

Server B has two GB cards, one is being used.

After the updates i was forced to reboot BOTH server A & B

next time you have the issue go on one of the pc’s and from the command prompt do:

arp -a

you’ll see the mac address of the thing that has that IP listed under physical address – see if it’s different from the ones that work – you should be able to track it down via that.

did this and…. worryingly….

Server A – 192.168.1.4

&

Server B – 192.168.1.9

Both shows as DYNAMIC NOT STATIC??

Think it is time to UNCHECK DHCP on the BT HUB…

hi screen shot of actual hub :)

cheers

What sits between your clients and the router? Switch/firewall anything else?

its very simple, nothing fancy.

main bt internet line comes into bt hub,
cat5 from bt hub into 3com unmanaged hub
all clients/servers connected to 3com hub

the only firewall is the bt hub

all pc’s are having the same problem, it is intermittent, i just tried a share to the sales drive it worked but took ages, then tired again and it came back with the classic error.

on server B the one were having trouble with DNS is static 192.168.1.4

its a pain as it was all working fine and nothing has changed.

Cheers all again…

This is form the BT router LAN section

Private Network
Router/Gateway Address: 192.168.1.254
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Private Network DHCP Info:
Range: 192.168.1.64 – 192.168.1.253

DHCP Configuration
DHCP Server Enabled
Unchecking will stop the DHCP server from assigning IP addresses to LAN DHCP clients.
DHCP Network Range

If you change the IP address range, you must renew the DHCP lease for all devices on the network.
192.168.1.0 / 255.255.255.0 (default)
172.16.0.0 / 255.255.0.0
10.0.0.0 / 255.255.0.0
Configure manually

Router Address:
Subnet Mask:
First DHCP Address:
Last DHCP Address:
DHCP Lease Time: hours (24 hours default)
Select Default Address Allocation Pool for the DHCP Server
New Device DHCP Pool:

This selection modifies the default LAN network used by the DHCP server for address assignments to new devices. The default setting is Private Network. Change it only to Public Network when you want every new device getting a public address assigned. The recommendation is Private Network. You can change the setting for each individual device below.

IF i IPCONFIG /ALL my PC it says

IP – 192.168.1.14
SUBNET – 255.255.255.0
DHCP – 192.168.1.4
GATEWAY – 192.168.1.254
DNS – 192.168.1.4

i’ll check on bt hub

Cheers,

might not answer you but…

excuse my ignorance, on the DC in DNS manager ‘interfaces’ tab it says “select the IP addresses that will serve DNS requests ” – All IP addresses check box is selected

Forwarders Tab

192.168.1.254 is entered (the BT HUB)

im sure your a nice chap, but i dont get much sleep with a mad 3 year old so sadly i would have to give mark you down as 8 bombers

I did these to the same mate.

1 – He went to India for 6 months, sent me his CV a month before he came back to ‘update’ – i did update the CV but added a few bits to his ‘hobbies’ – wearing mothers clothes and playing with oneself. CV was sent back to him to ‘check’ – i call him a few days after he landed and said did you get the CV he said “yes,thanks for that i sent it to a load of agencies”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can guess the rest.

2 – Same guy, i was bestman at another mates wedding, my mates wife got seriously drunk and was sick at the back of the reception hall in the 5 star hotel. I wrote a fake letter with the hotels logo and said they had to clean the carpets at a cost of £500, then scanned the letter and sent it to the groom who in turn sent it to my mate. he actually wrote a cheque out and sent it to the hotel!!

he has sworn he will get me back…… im still waiting

fasthosts are the daddy!

Honda HRV

Tip-

if you have the AUX button on the ford stereo you can buy an adapter on ebay that plugs into the back and the other end plugs into an IPOD. (Only thing is it doesnt charge it)

i had my first interview in over 10 years at the start of the month, my god how they have changed.

mine was a ‘Competency based’ interview, luckily the wife prepared me, have a read of this…

S.T.A.R

It’s sounds a load of b*lox but i wrote down 5 examples of answers to various questions, such as “give an example of when you were stressed” – “give an example of when you were part of a team”

i actually got the job and they said they were impressed, so i guessed it worked.

good luck

it’s good but a bit all over the shop, you just know we are NOT going to get answers.

The yanks have bought the rights aswell and are going to make a version!

best tip i ever heard is…

flip a coin, you will make your decision before it hits the ground ;)

just setup a new email address and send your boss an anonymous mail telling her.

As above, Tenby is lovely and it has this place which is amazing for kids!

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Bloke in work has a ‘proper’ original mini with a Honda VTEC engine in it!! mental as a box of frogs!

if i ever have spare cash im getting one of these, and put a few modern touches on/in it!

i was going to type a massive rant but i think i’ll just re-post the above again! (cheers cougar)