Release 3.2  Copyright ã1993 by NeXT Computer, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

3.2 Release Notes: 
SimpleNetworkStarter

New Features

SimpleNetworkStarter was a new tool in Release 3.0.   It is intended for small (2-20) machine networks to give administrators who are not UNIXÔ wizards a tool to get going.

·	Allows simple configuration of  several types of NFS server.
·	Automatically configures ntp, and automatic host addition.
·	Automatically secures netinfo domains to the local network.
·	Will reconfigure sendmail network-wide.

There have been some cosmetic changes to the application since Release 3.0, but the functionality remains the same.

Known Problems

The following are known problems with the SimpleNetworkStarter application.   

·	Before you set up a network using SimpleNetworkStarter, make sure that a networking board is already configured and installed in your computer. You configure a networking board using the Configure application. For information, see Installing and Configuring NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 for Intel Processors.

·	Some check boxes may not be accurate after the network is configured.

·	Configure This Host should never be clicked twice.

·	If you want the mail picture database to function on client systems, you must create the directory /LocalLibrary/Images on that system. When you then reboot the system, /LocalLibrary/Images/People is mounted from the mail server.

·	SimpleNetworkStarter makes a backup archive of the state of your system before rebuilding it. It mentions this archive file but not its location. The compressed tar archive is in /etc/systemTar.Z

Troubleshooting

If SimpleNetworkStarter quits in the middle of configuring or fails to restore state when there is an error, you can recover the previous configuration as follows:

1	Halt the system.

2	Boot to single user mode.

3	At the first shell prompt enter: fsck -p

4	At the next shell prompt enter: /NextAdmin/SimpleNetworkStarter.app/rc.restore.  This script will restore the system to the state it had prior to the last time the button was 
	pressed. It restores from a compressed tar archive /etc/systemTar.Z.