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From: gary@pnl-geo.UUCP ( Gary Black )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Loss of non-NetInfo Network Configuration
Message-ID: <23460002@pnl-geo.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 18:49:27 GMT
Organization: Battelle Northwest
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I am having some repeated diffuculty in keeping a NeXT machine alive on a
heterogeneous (non-NetInfo) thin ethernet network.  It seems that when
the network is interrupted temporarily by disconnecting the BNC connector
from the Next for instance, the network configuration is lost as well as
the link to the user accounts.  It comes up logged in automatically as
"me" and gives the message "Cannot connect to NetInfo server.  Assuming
no NetInfo parents" when I inquire about the local configuration with
NetManager.  It still lists the network configured the way it was when
it worked correctly.  The interesting aspect is that it will lose the
configuration after the machine is powered down before the network is
interrupted.

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