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From: schmitz@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Thomas Schmitz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: New IP Network Number & PC-NFS
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Date: 21 Aug 89 19:45:27 GMT
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I am involved in an effort to change to a new network number on an IP
network with many PC-NFS workstations.  It has been hypothesised that,
on any particular workstation, all address information, for the
workstation itself as well as for other hosts, is maintained solely in
C:\NFS\HOSTS and that it would thus be possible to convert a PC-NFS
station to the new address scheme simply by running this file through a
filter.  This approach could be expected to be faster and less
error-prone than using the NFS configuration program (which would
probably leave some editing to do on the HOSTS file anyway).

Can anyone confirm or deny the correctness of this approach to making
wholesale host address changes on PC-NFS workstations?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Tom Schmitz   schmitz@umn-cs.umn.edu