Administrators vs. Users. 1

[DietCokeMan]

Is there a way a User can tell how the Administrators set up the network?

I am upset with how administrators set up networks to their advantage vs. keeping in mind who they serve. I work on an extremely, highly managed Windows 2000 network. The helpdesk doesn’t know or won’t say how space is utilized. Hundreds of Gigabytes of storage apace and one can’t save a small file. Is it by user, workgroup, or directory structure?

Management won’t question the Administrator because they don’t know the questions to ask or always ASSUME the Administrators are managing the network correctly.

The Users have given up asking for help or assistance because it all problems are caused by Users. If there were no users there would be no problem.

To go to management one need the facts of network setup. Is there a tool a user can run to shed light on the network is setup? Some program that is not installed, but can run from a floppy or CD.

Users need to unite against the mean, uncaring, unhelpful administrators.

Ken

 

[DestinysDream]

Have you documented all of the situations between you and your administrator. Most of us who are administrators are not out to get users but we have alot of rules that we have to deal with. Maybe instead of going against your administrator you should just ask them why it is this way. If you start using tools against your network that is called "Cracking" or "Hacking". No one should help you with this question on this forum.

If anyone calls and says "I know a little something about computers" just tell them to reformat it.

 

[shrubble]

Right on the money-

A network administrator is hired to do a job, just like any employee, and typically upper management's (or the business owner's) desires are reflected in the type and kind of access that users have to network resources.

At my last gig, I was told to only give Internet access to a select few users, and we had no common network shares. In short- users were kept in the dark, and because I was hired to do a job (just like them), that was the job I did.

Where I work now, all of the users are pretty tech saavy, and the owner of the organization is a bit of a hippy. As a result, there are no restrictions on Internet access, and most of the users routinely install and uninstall software on their workstations. We also have pretty loose (perhaps too loose) rules about saving things on network shares. Again, this is the way the man wants his network, this is the way it is.

Now, that being said, it is entirely possible that your administrator IS just a mean person or has crappy people skills (the latter trait all too common in this profession), there are people like that everywhere. But when you have to run a network, you take on a lot a responsibility, even if it doesn't seem that way.



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