Re: WRK CFG NT

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As far as I remember, *DEVD is considered used, when its status becomes
ACTIVE.

     Alexei Pytel

"The better is the worst enemy of the good"





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My boss wants me to get him a directory of our peripherals
- what's networked how
- what's not

I got stuff the 400 knows about & I have some mysteries

PRTLCL DSPRMT etc. may have been how some device names started out their
life
but I swear they are really VRT virtual now ... when same device is
connected
a different way, does the auto configuration not change the object
attributes?

We have people who had device-A & supposedly were switched to device-B at
remote offices, but 400 says device-A last used long after device-B
installed, so either someone else is using device-A or act of starting sub
system after a backup somehow records device as being used, even when no
human is home, or some other variation on this idea.

I walked around our offices to total up stuff the 400 not know about (an
amazing number of PCs have their own PC printers ... I wonder if it is more

economical that way, than the hassle of figuring out how to share printer
access with only native network stuff & what the cost is of software to
manage sharing v.s. the savings in having 20 less printers & instead having
1
shared printer per cluster of offices).

Assuming PC LAN System Administrator lets me into NT info to poke around
... where do I go to get at list of connected stuff that NT knows about
that's comparable to WRKSYSCFG or DSPOBJ *DEVD *OUTFILE (hardware devices
reference directory)?

What I am looking for initially is some addressing scheme that lists all
the
devices attached to the LAN where we can see just like we can see on the
400
addressing screen

Here is a Printer in the Purchasing Office.
Here is a PC installed in Human Resources.
How can you tell which is on local router & which is on router in remote
office?

It might have some strange code numbers but then we would have some way of
accessing something on the client to match up what the code numbers are on
each peripheral, that we have to learn how.

Color me as an ignoramous in NT land
Our NT is on external ethernet, run by its own PC server, talking to 400 so

that the 400 thinks all the virtual addresses are on some work station
controller.
Perhaps this is the wrong forum for me to be asking this kind of question.

Thanks in advance.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

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