18 Jul
2001
18 Jul
'01
1:09 p.m.
On Jul 18, 21:56, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
Quoting Pete Turnbull
<pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>om>:
> On the subject of NeXTs, how do you get a NeXT to use standard files
> (/etc/hosts, et al) instead of the netinfo stuff?
What you may want to read is chapter 10 (Incorporating
a NeXT Computer
into a Mixed Network) from NeXT Network and System Administration.
Available
on paper back and probably on your system disk as
well.
I'll have a look for that. Any idea where I'd find it? I don't have any
paper manuals, but I do have several CDs.
Man-pages on niload and nidump might help too.
Honestly, I never remember
how to do it so I just improvise and create a local NI hierarchy and
use DNS for name resolution.
I read them, and realised they didn't tell me enough, mainly because I
don't understand the rest of it.
The chapter did mention NIS (yp) so that *might* be an
option.
No, NIS is *never* an option ;-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
18 Jul
18 Jul
8:52 p.m.
Quoting Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>om>:
niload is just a helper for loading text-based configuration files into
the NetInfo DB. nidump does the same in reverse.
Misc. link:
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1060.htmld/1060.html
Heh :) I'm sometimes ready to put NI into same category but that's
probably just because I have one (or two, if you count white boxes)
NeXT(s). NI would probably kick ass in an installation with something
like 100 machines.
I must admit that NetInfo can be quite confusing and I can screw up a
machine pretty easily with it.
--
jht
On Jul 18, 21:56, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
I'll have a look for that. Any idea where I'd find it? I don't have
any
paper manuals, but I do have several CDs.
If you install the whole shebang (at least on 3.3) you get the documentation
library in (I don't remember) /NextLibrary/something. It doesn't matter
because the bookshelf-files are in /NextLibrary/BookShelves/. Just double
click on SysAdmin.bshlf.
Man-pages on niload and nidump might help too.
Honestly, I never
remember
how to do it so I just improvise and create a
local NI hierarchy and
use DNS for name resolution.
I read them, and realised they didn't tell me enough, mainly because I
don't understand the rest of it. The chapter did mention NIS (yp) so that *might*
be an option.
No, NIS is *never* an option ;-)
20 Jul
20 Jul
8:12 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:09:15PM +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
Only in the case that putting a shotgun under your chin
and pulling the trigger, is also an option..
Bill
--
Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
The chapter
did mention NIS (yp) so that *might* be an option.
No, NIS is *never* an option ;-)
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