Posts tagged 'NeXTSTEP'

• Weird problems in NEXTSTEP (and workarounds) - June 11, 2004

  So NEXTSTEP has some quirks - especially if you’re used to a more modern UNIX system. I’ve encountered lots of problems in my dealings with the system and have come up with a variety of workarounds for most of them. Here’s a list.

• Lost Root Password - June 11, 2004

  If you’ve forgotten the root password, you’ll need to follow the following procedure to reset it so you can login as root. This is most helpful to people who’ve just purchased a used NeXT but don’t know what the root password is.

• Making Packages I - June 11, 2004

  I’ve recently gotten tired of spamming my NeXTstation with software. Instead, I’d like to use its packaging system to create pacakges out of the things that I build. This has several advantages.

• Using your NeXT as a NIS client - June 11, 2004

  I’ve got a network with a variety of platforms that all have to work together. I’d like to keep the same passwords and home directories across all these machines so there’s only one database for all the information. NEXTSTEP wants to use NetInfo but it’s the only machine I have that supports it. Since everything supports NIS, that’s what I am using.

• Replacing the hard drive in a Nextstation - June 11, 2004

  Eventually, that 420 meg hard drive in the slab is going to get filled up and you’ll want more disk space. That’s especially true as you start to download lots of stuff and maybe even do some development work.

• Configuring your NeXT for a class B network - June 11, 2004

  At my house, we do networking a little differently. We’ve assigned ourselves each a class C network under the 192.168.0.0 address space, with the router on 192.168.0.1. My assigned network is the 192.168.4.0 block, with my NeXT specifically being 192.168.4.12. Now, I need to set up the machine such that anything for the internal network goes to the internal network, and anything for the outside world goes through the router. You’d think this would be an easy thing to set up using all the graphical tools, but apparently not.