RE: Changine I/P Address on iSeres

["Jonathan Mason" <jonathan.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul

That's usually the Windows "Hosts" file.  In W95/W98 it's in
C:\Windows\System32 and in the NT styles it's usually in
C:\WinNT\System32\Drivers\etc.

When you installed Client Access it used to check for the host name in
this file and if found it picked up the address.  If the address wasn't
there you had to enter an address and CA then added the entry to the
hosts file.

All the best

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PaulMmn
Sent: 07 October 2005 13:43
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Changine I/P Address on iSeres

If I understand the process correctly, our network doesn't require an 
IP address on each PC-- there's a network thingamajig that accepts 
the NAME of the computer (ie the iSeries) and 'knows' that the IP 
address is 1.2.3.4.  I'm not sure if that's DNS or something else.

The main requirement is that each PC points to the NAME, not the IP 
address.  Then, it's a 'simple' matter to change the master entry at 
the network level, and the IP address of the iSeries, and everything 
changes at once.

--Paul E Musselman
PAulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx