On 11/07/2019 09:42, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:59:33 +0100, Chris Bartram wrote:

On 10/07/2019 11:14, Jethro_uk wrote:

Which leads to another question ... there's nothing else on the network
that's doing a DHCP job is there ? I know WinXP/NT Server 4 networks
could be jammed if another DHCP server popped up from nowhere. Which
used to happen a lot (in those days) as salespeople carried NT4 Server
laptops and their IT guys never turned off DHCP. So when they connected
to our network everything barfed.


Some daft ******* must have installed or enabled it- pretty sure it was
never on by default.

The reason was that when they connected to "foreign" networks, they
couldn't be sure of DHCP - or indeed any server services. Which is why
they put NT *Server* on the laptop in the first place.

OOI, what were they doing?