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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!juliet!news
  3. From: lemson@fnbc.com (David Lemson)
  4. Subject: Re: Networking Problem
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul24.194800.7589@fnbc.com>
  6. Sender: news@fnbc.com
  7. Reply-To: lemson@fnbc.com
  8. Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
  9. References: <1992Jul23.052741.77142@cs.cmu.edu>
  10. Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:48:00 GMT
  11. Lines: 46
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Jul23.052741.77142@cs.cmu.edu> anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar  
  14. Mohammed) writes:
  15. > 
  16. > I have the following problem getting a two station netinfo
  17. > network going:
  18. > 
  19. > 2> I then rewire (with the n&c server still on) to get the following  
  20. configuration
  21. > and power on the second machine:
  22. > 
  23. >         T----C--------------------------C----T
  24. >              |                          |
  25. >              |                          |
  26. >              N                          N
  27. > 
  28. >         T:  50 ohm thin ethernet terminator
  29. >         C:  ethernet "T" connector
  30. >         N:  NeXT machine
  31. > 
  32. > 
  33. > 
  34. > This works fine, but obviously, I shouldn't have to rewire the thing.
  35. > 
  36. > I should be able to use the following configuration, boot up the server,
  37. > then boot up the client:
  38. > 
  39. >         T----C--------------------------C----T
  40. >              |                          |
  41. >              |                          |
  42. >              N  (netinfo server)        N (netinfo client)
  43. > 
  44. >         T:  50 ohm thin ethernet terminator
  45. >         C:  ethernet "T" connector
  46. >         N:  NeXT machine
  47. > 
  48. > However, when I turn on the server, I get a "cannot find parent server"  
  49. message.
  50.  
  51. These two look the same to me- I must be missing something.
  52.  
  53. Anyhow, did you wait a while for the server to find itself?  See  
  54. NextAnswers netinfo.515.
  55. --
  56. David Lemson                                           (312) 732-4741
  57. FNBC Sys Admin (Summer) UIUC NeXT Campus Consultant(rest of the time)
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