First thing this morning, the kiddy file server stopped authenticating against our Active Directory server. This had to be unbound and rebound to the directory, so that was 20 mins of disruption. Then, during that 20 mins, the staff server did a similar thing. Except it was running really really slowly, then locked up whenever you tried to open an app. There were errors in the logs about file tables full. The Other Tech found that this sort of thing is allocated during start up depending on the amount of RAM the server detects, so that, added to the freezing, led us to remove 1GB of RAM which we now thing is faulty. It's FBDIMMs, so we don't have any spare and have had to order some in to replace it. That was about an hour to fix while we waited for the crashing to stop/start and work out what was going on. Fun? No.
Ordered 6TB of storage for our kiddy file backup, and chased an order for two full sets of Nintendo Wii for our sports department (it's educational, apparently).
Worked on the school iPhoto server - seems at least 2 people are using this!
Finally, tried to cobble together a 'high performance' G4 tower to replace an array of crappy eMacs for our media department's second room.
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