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- From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: NeXT on Sun YP Network w/o netinfo?
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- Organization: Industrial Technology Institute
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:58:24 GMT
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- One of my clients has received one (count it) NeXT workstation and want
- to integrate it into an otherwise all-Sun network. It's a bare-bones
- configuration with just enough disk to support the application (user
- data files will reside on one of the Sun NFS servers.) The online docs
- mostly aren't there, and we have only the slimmest of NeXT admin
- manuals.
-
- The client has NIS running and a number of NFS servers he wants to
- integrate into the network. He doesn't have any docs worth speaking of
- on the NeXT, and it was bought from a advertising firm as a platform to
- run a particular product. The advertising firm is supposed to do the
- support, but does not know anything worth speaking of except about
- their own product in a pure NeXT environment.
-
- We have been able to successfully integrate NIS with the NeXT, but we
- have not been able to get the NFS mounts to happen properly at boot.
- Doing standard NFSish things like editing the fstab don't work. The
- docs we have been able to find discuss *only* using NFS with netinfo.
- However, it appears you get netinfo or NIS, but not both. Duplicating
- the YP data into netinfo is acceptable only if there is some mechanical
- method.
-
- I've checked the FAQs for NeXT, no joy.
-
- Is anyone running machines in a configuration such as described here?
- If so, pointers would be appreciated.
- --
- "If life were fair, the acquisition of a large bosom or a massive inheritance
- would have no bearing on your ability to attract the opposite sex, and Dan
- Quayle would be making a living asking runny-nosed children, `Do you want
- fries with that?'" -- John Cleese, "Corporate Computing" magazine
-