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Got mine today, on time. Upgrade installation went fine and now running Tiger. I think Tiger could be the start of something really big. Good luck, everyone.

Try this link. I've found it useful... http://www.bresink.de/osx/nis.html good luck.

Looks like the url was lost. Try this... <url>http://www.bresink.de/osx/nis.html</url>

Thanks. I tried it and it works. John Welch in an article at MacWeek provided a link to a NIS reference that I found helpful. Take a look at <http://www.bresink.de/osx/nis.html>.

True the OS is beta and I am not doing critical work while using it. The main reason that I find that I don't spend more time using OS X is precisely because I cannot back it up. If I could make snapshots of the system before twiddling I would not be afraid to explore but as it is now if I...

Now that I have OS X running, how do I backup? I have a DAT drive does anyone know how to mount it? Do tape drivers exist for OS X? What are other people doing to backup?

Thanks for the suggestions everybody. I haven't tried them all but it looks like I will. :( I have decided that using the 'Terminal' is cheating and that the solution must be found using the GUI. The following doesn't work yet but I'm hopeful. Using info I extracted from Darwin I tried...

Hmmm. My '/etc/resolve.conf' is a symbolic link to a file ('/var/run/resolve.conf') that doesn't exist on my system.

Thanks. I also found this. However... My 'hosts' file is pretty long and I don't want to enter it all, one address at time. I dimly remember being able to configure 'bind' to search the 'hosts' file before searching other domainname servers. Unfortunately, I don't understand how name...

Can someone point me to documentation on how DNS name resolution works in OSX PB? Problem: I used the 'hosts' file in OS 9 to sink references to advertisers. How do I get OS X to search my old 'hosts' file during name resolution?