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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Looking for AppleTalk name-checking code.
Message-ID: <1848@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 08:38:31 GMT
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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I've written some code which runs different pieces of itself on different
nodes on an AppleTalk net. The problem is, novice (read "careless and/or
stupid") users keep switching systems, and I wind up with machines with bad
node names.

Now I'm not worried about function A being performed on node B. If they're
not smart enough to figure that out, they won't mind it happening anyway.
The problem is running function A on node A, and node B, and node C.

I think a sufficient solution is to check, on bootup, if "my" node name is
already owned by another machine on the net. I don't have to worry about
zones.

I figure it's simple enough to do- a call or to to the NBP layer should do the
trick. I've never done this, though, so what I'd like is a small fragment
of code in either Pascal or C (or anything else, I guess) which does it.

Normally I'd just read & experiment, but I don't really want to muck around
on the AppleTalk net- it's always in use.

Thanks in advance,
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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)