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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!anwar
  2. From: anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
  4. Subject: Networking Problem
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul23.052741.77142@cs.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jul 92 05:27:41 GMT
  7. Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
  8. Lines: 58
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: f.gp.cs.cmu.edu
  10.  
  11.  
  12. I have the following problem getting a two station netinfo
  13. network going:
  14.  
  15. This setup works for me:
  16.  
  17. 1> Turn on netinfo and configuration server in the following 
  18. network configuration:
  19.  
  20.         T----C----T
  21.              |
  22.              |
  23.              N (netinfo server)
  24.          
  25.         T:  50 ohm thin ethernet terminator
  26.         C:  ethernet "T" connector
  27.         N:  NeXT machine
  28.  
  29. 2> I then rewire (with the n&c server still on) to get the following configuration
  30. and power on the second machine:
  31.  
  32.         T----C--------------------------C----T
  33.              |                          |
  34.              |                          |
  35.              N                          N
  36.  
  37.         T:  50 ohm thin ethernet terminator
  38.         C:  ethernet "T" connector
  39.         N:  NeXT machine
  40.  
  41.  
  42.  
  43. This works fine, but obviously, I shouldn't have to rewire the thing.
  44.  
  45. I should be able to use the following configuration, boot up the server,
  46. then boot up the client:
  47.  
  48.         T----C--------------------------C----T
  49.              |                          |
  50.              |                          |
  51.              N  (netinfo server)        N (netinfo client)
  52.  
  53.         T:  50 ohm thin ethernet terminator
  54.         C:  ethernet "T" connector
  55.         N:  NeXT machine
  56.  
  57. However, when I turn on the server, I get a "cannot find parent server" message.
  58.  
  59. Blecch.
  60.  
  61. thanks,
  62. anwar
  63.  
  64. -- 
  65. Anwar Mohammed                           Graduate Student
  66. anwar+@cs.cmu.edu  (NeXTmail welcome)    School of Computer Science
  67. Voice: +1 412 268 3043                   Carnegie-Mellon University
  68. Fax:   +1 412 681 5739                   Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3890
  69.