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Elizabeth Culmer ([personal profile] edenfalling) wrote2005-06-01 07:33 pm
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pointless work update

After weeks and weeks of going nowhere, the VPN for my remote-coding recipe project is finally working! I start coding tomorrow. (Probably. After I finish a spreadsheet for another client, and work out a polite way to kick I. off her computer, since she's the only one who has VPN software installed.)
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[identity profile] redwolfoz.livejournal.com 2005-06-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Wiggy bloody things, VPNs are.

It took ages for my work one to get sorted. Turned out my home network IPs clashed with the work ones. That's fixed and we get a server OS upgrade and now it works. Mostly. But if it doesn't I have to call the office and have them reboot the router to free up an IP.

I'm sure this wouldn't happen if they used *nix, but no, they have to use Windows. Oh, the security.
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[personal profile] edenfalling 2005-06-02 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. First we couldn't find the relevant IP address, and had to email back and forth to get it. And then we had, or so we thought, everything set up properly, and it Just Wouldn't Connect.

Turns out the tech guys on our end kind of forgot that I.'s computer is on a different part of our internal network, so something in either our firewall or our IP addresses was screwy and blocking things. (The explanation kind of went over my head.)

And THEN we had the problem of not having PC Anywhere installed on the VPN machine, so even after the connection way made, I couldn't get to the relevant computer on the other end to DO anything there!

*headdesk*

I still have no idea how I ended up at a software company. I am SO not a computer person.

[identity profile] redwolfoz.livejournal.com 2005-06-02 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I am SO not a computer person.

From your explanation, it doesn't sound like the techs there are either.

Weirdly enough, I still can't access my work mail from home. I asked the tech about this, he assumed I was screwing something up, so I asked him to setup my mail account through his laptop as if it was external. Sure enough it fell over. He doesn't know why.

Another joyous bug of the server switch means that I can login to the VPN, but have no access to anything. So I have to login as administrator.

Windows really sucks.
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