On Thursday 10 March 2005 06:13, Rick Bilonick wrote: > No, the university has made it quite clear that they own the network > and control IP addresses. My sin is that because a lack of office > space, my office was located in the data center. The data center IT > people have no intention of helping or cooperating. Their solution > would be for me to let them install Windows XP on the machine and > they would control ALL aspects (even down to the screen resolution). > I would not be able to run the software I need to run but that > doesn't really matter to them. > > Rick B. Rick, Welcome to the real world of University computing ;-) We have a similar setup here with the University IT guys owning the network and only supporting Windoze NT ( not even XP ). They have been trying to go to a private network for the last 3 years but still haven't managed it. So we have a mixture of public and private at the moment. At least they allocate us, the Comp. Sci. Dept. a block of IP addresses that we can the allocate ourselves. So we use these to dual boot all the student machines and look after them ourselves. Tony -- Tony Molloy. Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick
