js3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Vincent Schultz) (06/01/91)
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
youki@newmars.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp (Youki Kadobayashi) (06/01/91)
>>>>> On 31 May 91 17:21:23 GMT, js3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Vincent Schultz) said: > 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? Does your NetInfo root domain contain root user entry? youki@metro(25)$ niutil -list / / 1 machines 5 printers 8 mounts 12 groups 23 users 25 networks youki@metro(26)$ niutil -list / /users 24 root I had similar problem before (on NeXTstep 2.0J); after I added root passwd entry in the root domain (I copied it from "." domain of netinfo server), the problem disappeared. -- Youki Kadobayashi Information Network Architecture Lab. Dept. of Info. and Comp. Sci, Osaka University, Japan