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From: donp@na.excelan.com (don provan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Sun PC-NFS deficiencies
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.173934.18700@novell.com>
Date: 16 Mar 91 12:35:47 GMT
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 17:39:34 GMT

In article <20171@ists.ists.ca> aronb@gkcl.UUCP (Aron Burns) writes:
>so who let him configure his own machine?  Who could expect a user
>to understand an IP address and pick a machine name?

Exactly his point.  In NetWare the user doesn't have to come up with
an address or a machine name, so you *can* let him configure his own
machine.
						don provan
						donp@novell.com