DHCP release/renew

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There are several users in our office that have laptops that they carry
between work & home. These are set to use dhcp & alot of times they have
trouble getting on the network at the office. I usually talk them through
running ipconfig /release & renew. Is there a better way to do this? Like a
setting on the laptops to release the address when shutting down?
Thanks-
 
Shutting down works. They may not be really shutting them down. They may
just be going into hibernation mode and the user thinks it is shutdown.

I guess you could place a Batch file on thier machine with a shortcut on the
desktop that has the IPCONFIG commands. Tell them "when in doubt, run it".
But I thought normal users couldn't run that command,...you didn't make them
local administrators did you?
 
Since these are their own personal computers, yes they are local
administrators.
Another thing that has cropped up is that when accessing the Internet,
several users are getting the "page cannot be displayed" message, but then
hitting refresh will get the page to display.

Phillip Windell said:
Shutting down works. They may not be really shutting them down. They may
just be going into hibernation mode and the user thinks it is shutdown.

I guess you could place a Batch file on thier machine with a shortcut on
the
desktop that has the IPCONFIG commands. Tell them "when in doubt, run
it".
But I thought normal users couldn't run that command,...you didn't make
them
local administrators did you?
--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com


Mike said:
There are several users in our office that have laptops that they carry
between work & home. These are set to use dhcp & alot of times they have
trouble getting on the network at the office. I usually talk them through
running ipconfig /release & renew. Is there a better way to do this? Like a
setting on the laptops to release the address when shutting down?
Thanks-
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Mike said:
Since these are their own personal computers, yes they are local
administrators.
Another thing that has cropped up is that when accessing the Internet,
several users are getting the "page cannot be displayed" message, but then
hitting refresh will get the page to display.
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I haven't seen that happen here since I made the browser cache size the
minimum of 1 meg, and set it to "every visit to the page".

Since these are their own personal machines you are probably going to have
to settle for an "imperfect world" unless you want to become the babysitter
for all these guy's personal machines. You'll be chasing spyware, viruses,
and screwed up configurations until you die. Then evey time something goes
wrong with one of them you will get the blame because you "were the last one
to work on it". They'll tell all their friends how that IT guy at work
"screwed up my machine when he put it on the network at work"... even if you
had nothing to do with what it wrong with it..

I have pretty much abandoned working on people's personal "home user"
machines with only a few rare exceptions.
 
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