Changing Lana number
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All jobs have this, for the most part. There is a lot to potentially learn. Learning to understand corporate politics is hard and takes a lot of exposure.
One thing that is very hard to identify is "where is the ethical breach coming from." Sure you can identify that people are acting badly, but why? Who is authorizing this?
Some examples of where bad things might happen...
- An IT tech wanting a quick fix and hoping no one notices, thinking that they will be long gone before it all falls apart. See: https://mangolassi.it/topic/11852/why-it-builds-a-house-of-cards
- An IT manager who wants his department to show better profits or less cost.
- An executive who doesn't care about ethics and wants to just make money.
- A CEO who sets company policy in this way.
- A Board of Directors that tell the executives to go in this direction.
- Investors who tell the board this is the kind of company that they want to invest in.
As the lowest rung, or near the lowest rung, on the ladder, you might have almost no way to tell if it is your boss, or ten steps above him, causing the issue.
Been through something like this recently (from the other side), where people "in the trenches" saw things and either didn't know that this wasn't how the company behaved or didn't know how to get information up the ladder to the board or investors. Result was a company acting one way when their goals and intent were very different.
In some cases, you can figure out that it is a middle manager and if you can sit down with the CEO you can turn things around because the CEO will be shocked to find out what is happening. But that's rare. It's the CEO's job to know what is going on in his company. That's his role. But anyone can miss things or be fooled, of course.
Sometimes it's having a drink with a board member and saying "is this really the kind of company we intend to be"? Sometimes it's getting the ear of corporate counsel. But generally, it comes from the investors and is just "who the company is."
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Regards Lana, Netbios is still heavily in use in virtually every Airport in the world.
Although everything is very slowly moving to IP, a lot of Airline checkin - boarding applications (including major operators) hosted on common use platforms still require it for communicating with attached devices, printers, scanners etc.Google Lanacfg, its is a quicker method to see and change Lana, works up to and including windows 7.
Any later windows and you are stuck with the method in your initial post. -
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@plainfool said in Changing Lana number:
Regards Lana, Netbios is still heavily in use in virtually every Airport in the world.
Although everything is very slowly moving to IP, a lot of Airline checkin - boarding applications (including major operators) hosted on common use platforms still require it for communicating with attached devices, printers, scanners etc.Google Lanacfg, its is a quicker method to see and change Lana, works up to and including windows 7.
Any later windows and you are stuck with the method in your initial post.Im familiar with lanacfg in windows 7, Ive had to change multiple sites lana number back when i first started that were all on windows 7 machines.
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@scottalanmiller said in Changing Lana number:
have alternatives like Token Ring
I haven't heard that in years! I wired Token Ring before.
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As far a I know post win7 there is no other way to do it other than how you are at the moment.
fun days ahead when all those xp machines are retired!
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@plainfool said in Changing Lana number:
As far a I know post win7 there is no other way to do it other than how you are at the moment.
fun days ahead when all those xp machines are retired!
no kidding!
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@plainfool said in Changing Lana number:
As far a I know post win7 there is no other way to do it other than how you are at the moment.
fun days ahead when all those xp machines are retired!
If they are ever retired, lol.
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@scottalanmiller said in Changing Lana number:
@plainfool said in Changing Lana number:
As far a I know post win7 there is no other way to do it other than how you are at the moment.
fun days ahead when all those xp machines are retired!
If they are ever retired, lol.
Well they have been around this long. . . Why not another decade with no support? LOL
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@wrcombs said in Changing Lana number:
@scottalanmiller said in Changing Lana number:
@plainfool said in Changing Lana number:
As far a I know post win7 there is no other way to do it other than how you are at the moment.
fun days ahead when all those xp machines are retired!
If they are ever retired, lol.
Well they have been around this long. . . Why not another decade with no support? LOL
Exactly. At this point, there is no trigger coming down the pike to push people off of them. If you are okay with them today, you'll be okay with them in twenty years.
