Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!rlgvax!jesse
From: jesse@rlgvax.UUCP (Jesse Barber)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PCNFS, The Toolkit and NFSDRIVE
Message-ID: <1262@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 89 20:45:35 GMT
References: <410@massey.ac.nz>
Reply-To: jesse@rlgvax.UUCP (Jesse Barber,OSGD,3443,)
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc, Reston VA 22091
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In article <410@massey.ac.nz> GEustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace) writes:
>
>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.
>
We also saw this problem. It appeared to us that the 'net start' command 
reads this environment variable, and caches it's value. Thus changing
the value after you have PCNFS does no good. Our use was for floppy based
machines, and we needed to remove the PC-NFS boot diskette after startup.
No go. If you get any solutions to this problem, please either e-mail
me or post it. I would appreciate it. 

Thanks

Jesse
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