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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!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: Re: Networking Problem
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul26.063300.11492@cs.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jul 92 06:33:00 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul26.063300.11492
  8. References: <1992Jul23.052741.77142@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Jul24.194800.7589@fnbc.com>
  9. Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
  10. Lines: 61
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: f.gp.cs.cmu.edu
  12.  
  13.  
  14. Thanks for all your suggestions, folks.  Unfortunately, I'd considered most
  15. possibilities in the two days I was tearing out my hair.  It turned out to 
  16. be a faulty cable.  ARGGHHH.
  17.  
  18. In any case, everything is A-OK.
  19.  
  20. In article <1992Jul24.194800.7589@fnbc.com> lemson@fnbc.com writes:
  21. >In article <1992Jul23.052741.77142@cs.cmu.edu> anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar  
  22. >Mohammed) writes:
  23. >> 
  24. >> I have the following problem getting a two station netinfo
  25. >> network going:
  26. >> 
  27. >> 2> I then rewire (with the n&c server still on) to get the following  
  28. >configuration
  29. >> and power on the second machine:
  30. >> 
  31. >>         T----C--------------------------C----T
  32. >>              |                          |
  33. >>              |                          |
  34. >>              N                          N
  35. >> 
  36. >>         T:  50 ohm thin ethernet terminator
  37. >>         C:  ethernet "T" connector
  38. >>         N:  NeXT machine
  39. >> 
  40. >> 
  41. >> 
  42. >> This works fine, but obviously, I shouldn't have to rewire the thing.
  43. >> 
  44. >> I should be able to use the following configuration, boot up the server,
  45. >> then boot up the client:
  46. >> 
  47. >>         T----C--------------------------C----T
  48. >>              |                          |
  49. >>              |                          |
  50. >>              N  (netinfo server)        N (netinfo client)
  51. >> 
  52. >>         T:  50 ohm thin ethernet terminator
  53. >>         C:  ethernet "T" connector
  54. >>         N:  NeXT machine
  55. >> 
  56. >> However, when I turn on the server, I get a "cannot find parent server"  
  57. >message.
  58. >
  59. >These two look the same to me- I must be missing something.
  60. >
  61. >Anyhow, did you wait a while for the server to find itself?  See  
  62. >NextAnswers netinfo.515.
  63. >--
  64. >David Lemson                                           (312) 732-4741
  65. >FNBC Sys Admin (Summer) UIUC NeXT Campus Consultant(rest of the time)
  66. >E-mail to: lemson@fnbc.com                          NeXTMail accepted
  67.  
  68.  
  69. -- 
  70. Anwar Mohammed                           Graduate Student
  71. anwar+@cs.cmu.edu  (NeXTmail welcome)    School of Computer Science
  72. Voice: +1 412 268 3043                   Carnegie-Mellon University
  73. Fax:   +1 412 681 5739                   Pittsburgh, PA  15213-3890
  74.