NeXT tidbits

Last weekend I got a Monochrome NeXTstation Turbo slab, and with a little difficulty was able to clear out the root password using the procedures that are fairly easy to find on DejaNews. However, NetInfo was giving me a fit, and kept setting the root password back to something else. Never did solve that, because I found a cleaner solution. I found a message using DejaNews in which someone recommends prior to selling a networked NeXT system that you copy /usr/templates/client/etc/hostconfig and netinfo/* to /private/etc and then reboot. The system is then in a "out of the box" standalone configuration. When you reboot you're then in the "me" account. Another useful piece of info that I found is that most of the "Lighthouse Design" apps are now available with a free 2 user license at http://www.peak.org/next/apps/LighthouseDesign/ These apps seem to all be quad-fat binaries, and include a Word Processor, 2 different Spreadsheets, a Database, Bitmap and Vector based graphics programs, and some other stuff. You can use them to turn your old NeXT system into a truely useful system. Not sure what you'd have to do for a local printer, I'm printing over the network to the Postscript HP 5MP on my Linux box. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |