Ronald Prettyman

Well its not as bad as I originally thought, now that I’ve gotten my DVD drive to work for apparently no reason what so ever. I am still in awe that I upgraded to the exact same version and now it works. Maybe the firmware had an error in it and I fixed it, but then why has it worked fine in XP and Linux. I don’t know, this is just a mystery to me. I fixed it. I fixed it. Nothing new their.

Once again I am the master of my domain. Literally because as it were I also got the laptop working. It was simple enough I just had to remove it from the domain and then set the gateway to the router restart connect back to the domain and walla it works as well. So now all is well and good in my home datacenter. My server is up and running and everything is working fantastic. Now the next challenge to get a remote client to join my domain.

I haven’t worked all the bugs out on how I’ll accomplish this but I have an idea. If I had a static IP it would be easy, just add my ip to the remote clients DNS server list. Then the remote client could easily join my server and have the advantages of being on my domain. No real advantage for them more for me and my need to have more users under my control and strict but stable guide lines.

Ask yourself, would you rather have a stable interface or the ability to go to any website you want and install any spyware you please. I don’t think so. You’d rather have a system administrator set rules for you on your computer so that you don’t mess it up.

It worked. I actually had the latest firmware, it poped up you already have version 1.0f do you want to upgrade to version 1.0f I said yes sure why not what harm can it do.

I updated and blamo, my dvd turned into a dvd rw. All is right with the world once again. Now I don’t have to blow 2008 away.

Well I’ve searched and searched for a vista driver for my DVD-rw drive to try and get it to burn a DVD in Server 2008. I decided to give up and go buy a new one because it just didn’t seem to be compatible with the new os. Well I go to the store and what do I see, Sony DRU-840a Vista Ready. Well I believe I have found a solution. If I install the latest firmware that should put me on par with what is being sold in stores and have my dvd-rw working as expected.