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
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Received on Sat Sep 19 1998 - 22:55:41 BST