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From: TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Is pc-nfs useful to anyone?
Message-ID: <91074.125204TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 15 Mar 91 17:52:04 GMT
References: <123@jetson.UUCP> <1991Mar14.051003.6212@amd.com>
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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>If you give 100 users a PC-NFS package and one page of instructions,
>almost certainly at least one of them will give his PC the same
>name as the server and crash the server. If you do all the installs
>yourself this is much less likely to happen. (what a bother)

Ever hear of RARP?  We currently have about 300 machines running PC-NFS,
and never had a problem with duplicate host names.  The only thing the
machines need to have unique are the Ethernet addresses, which I'm sure is
never a problem with anyone.  :-)

Cheers,
Thomas Dwyer III                        Email: tomiii@mtu.edu
Network Programmer                             tomiii@mtus5.BITNET
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