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From: js3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Vincent Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: installer & netinfo question
Message-ID: <McFcMHW00io1M27tQM@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 17:21:23 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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1)  Installer

Is there any way to turn off the Installer's insistence to copy the
package to /LocalLibrary/Packages/ThirdParty.  I am unable/have no
need to write to this directory but would like the Installer to work
anyways.

I realize that I package is just a glorified tar file and have in the
past manually extracted the data.  However, this grows tiresome.


2)  Netinfo

Lately I have had problems changing the "/" (root) domain from a
machine other than the netinfo server.  It repeately asks me to log in
as a superuser on the netinfo server, not accepting my valid root
password.  Does anyone know why I would be having trouble connecting
to the netinfo server this way?

(as an aside: it is depressing to lose all of one's changes this way,
for the only way out of the infinite dialog loop is to choose "cancel"
then "no" when it asks to save the changes.)

Hell, another netinfo question while I'm at it:

I had posted this question long ago (as did someone else, whose name I
forget) but never received any response.  The problem is trying to
move a NeXT printer spooler from the netinfo server to another
machine.  On the new machine, trying to export the printer to "/"
causes an unable to write to "/" error.  What causes this and how does
one get around it?


Thanks in advance,

James
js3b+@andrew.cmu.edu