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From: GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: PCNFS, The Toolkit and NFSDRIVE
Message-ID: <410@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 27 Nov 89 03:53:02 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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After many months I have again started writing code using the PC-NFS
Programmers Toolkit and have been reminded of a problem I struck way back
but had conveniently forgotten about.

On our PCs we have a very small host file which serves only to perform a
network connection and mount the default drives, we then set NFSDRIVE to
'P' which is a read-only, shared drive with lots of software on. There is
an NFS directory on that drive which has our real hosts file on it.

I have a small UDP program which attempts to look up a host using
'gethostbyname', the annoying thing is that it doesn't seem to take any
notice of the NFSDRIVE variable. The program is compiled with NO_YP
because we don't use YP. I want it to use the hosts file on the P: drive
but it seems to insist on using the one on my C: drive?? I have tried
setting the active drive to P: inside the program before calling
'gethost' but that still doesn't work.

Has anybody experienced this and if so what do you do to fix it. I
recall that my solution last time was to hard-code the IP number into the
program but I don't really like doing that.


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  Glen Eustace, Software Manager, Computer Centre, Massey University,
   Palmerston North, New Zealand. Phone: +64 63 69099 x7440 GMT+12
             E-Mail via Internet: G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz
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