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techrecoveryThem: Customer colocating a huge NAS box.
Me: In ur datacentre, beating ur servers.
They arrive and plonk their box on the industrial strength shelf I had the foremind to install in the rack.
Me: Here's the sheet with your IP addresses on it, and here's a screen and keyboard.
Them: Uh... won't it just get one automatically when we turn it on?
Me: No, we don't run DHCP for customers. These are public addresses... all you have to do is pick one, enter the settings, and voila.
Them: Well... we don't know how to do that. Can we come back tomorrow?
Me: o.O *one of these guys is their IT manager... and they don't know how to set an IP address on a Windows-driven NAS?* Okay!
Me: In ur datacentre, beating ur servers.
They arrive and plonk their box on the industrial strength shelf I had the foremind to install in the rack.
Me: Here's the sheet with your IP addresses on it, and here's a screen and keyboard.
Them: Uh... won't it just get one automatically when we turn it on?
Me: No, we don't run DHCP for customers. These are public addresses... all you have to do is pick one, enter the settings, and voila.
Them: Well... we don't know how to do that. Can we come back tomorrow?
Me: o.O *one of these guys is their IT manager... and they don't know how to set an IP address on a Windows-driven NAS?* Okay!
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