NEXTSTEP IN FOCUS

	Support Bulletin for Users and System Administrators
	Volume 3, Issue 3
	Summer 1993

	FEATURES
	Getting Acquainted with NetInfo
	An overview of what NetInfo is, what it does, and how to get started using it, plus important basic terms and special properties.
	Marc Majka

	A Typical NetInfo Setup
	An example of a standard NetInfo site.
	Alan M. Marcum

	Before NetInfo Starts
	What's in the NetInfo database and how automatic configuration works, plus networking terms and protocols.
	Alan M. Marcum

	The NetInfo Lookup ServerÐlookupd
	How client processes get NetInfo information.
	Alan M. Marcum

	NetInfo Binding and Connecting
	The mysteries of binding and connecting revealed!
	Alan M. Marcum and Marc Majka

	Propagating Updates
	What happens when you modify the network.
	Alan M. Marcum and Garth Snyder

	The Tough Stuff
	Disaster recovery, simple changes that aren't, backing up the NetInfo database, starting NetInfo in single-user mode, and more, plus a list of NEXTSTEP networking references.
	Alan M. Marcum and Marc Majka

	DEPARTMENTS

	Focal Point
	Who needs a whole issue on NetInfo.

	Tips & Techniques
	Installing a standalone printer; accessing NeXTanswersäby anonymous ftp.

	FYI
	How to reach NeXT.

CREDITS AND LEGAL MATTER
	Editorial

Editor: Cynthia Closkey
Copy editor: John Hammett

Design and production
Cover designer and illustrator: Nancy Serpiello
Production assistant: Jennifer Sherer
Book designer: Jeff Yaksick
Printer: A & a Digital Graphics

Contributions
Marc Majka, Alan Marcum, Bob O'Connor

Technical reviews
Mike Byron, Allen Denison, Scott Mattoon, Dan Peknik, Andreas Sautter, Kate Smith, Garth Snyder, Andrew Vyrros, Sharon Zakhour

Special thanks
Heidi Bolen, Trish Conlon, John Devitofranceschi, Bryce Jasmer, Peter King, Cathy Novak, Chuck Oelsner, Phil Schwartz, Brad Taylor, Jan Tyler

Colophon
NEXTSTEP In Focus is designed, written, and produced with NEXTSTEP. Proofs are printed on a NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer. Final pages are transferred via a NeXT 2.88MB floppy disk to film using NeXT computers and an electronic image setter.

About NEXTSTEP In Focus
NEXTSTEP In FocusÐSupport Bulletin for Users and System Administrators is a quarterly technical journal published by NeXT. It provides timely technical information to system and network administrators and users, to help you better support your NeXT network or user community and to let you make the most of NEXTSTEP.

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