remote access, not!

Tony and crew went up to the CAO for some R&R. Also, Tony wanted to look over things, make sure the house was OK. He offered to take up, by mule pack, one of our spare computers. If the dead server had completely melted, we could sub in the new, spare computer. Hopefully, the security video board would not be fried...

I had prepared notes for Tony so to how to affect changes. I considered the option where the boot hard disk in the old server was still OK. However, it did not function when Tony put it in new computer. So, we used the new computer's prepared hard disk as the boot drive. Tony moved the "storage" hard disk and video board to the new computer. Everything seemed good.

Then I charged Tony with reconfiguring our router, now that Georgian.net had changed our account to use a fixed IP. He successfully entered the new WAN IP, subnet, DNS server addresses. However, we could not test if this was working...

At some point on Friday, our internet connection to Georgian.net had gone down. When Tony called Friday afternoon, they reported that their technicians were working on it. That was the last we heard from them... We had no idea if or when they resolved it.

So, some baby steps. New computer in place. Looks like it's OK. Router reconfigured. But we'll have to wait to see what's up with our ISP. Again...