On Jul 18, 21:56, Jarkko Teppo wrote:
> Quoting Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>:
>
> > 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
Received on Wed Jul 18 2001 - 17:09:15 BST