Help-portmapper not responding

Eileen Hilburn

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May 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/15/98

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Today I changed the IP Address and Local Host Name on my machine.
When the system came back up I got this message:

WARNING: portmapper on server is not responding.

Also my machine name in Sco Desktop is still what the old Host Name
was.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

eileen

Tom Phillips

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May 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/18/98

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There is an article on this problem on SCO's website
http://www.sco.com/ta. If those solutions don't fix your problem,
change everything back the way it was and use netconfig to remove the
card and add the card with the new IP address.

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Mike Dean

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May 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/18/98

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This message will come up if your network cable is not plugged in.

Mike Dean

Lucky Leavell

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May 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/18/98

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Well, I went through this too on my OSR5.0.4 system including following
the recommendations in the TA, removing/reinstalling the NIC driver,
changing NIC cards, etc, etc all to no avail UNTIL I swapped motherboards
last weekend ... I know it makes absolutely no sense whatsover ...
go figure.

Thank you,
Lucky

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Paul Johnson

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May 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/19/98

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I've had the same problem. Check your hosts file and make sure that you
do not have multiple entries for your new hostname in there.

Steven L Cooper

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May 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/19/98

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Edit your /etc/hosts file and remove the "old" host line(s)...
Steve
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Tom Rabbitt

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May 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/20/98

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Has it removed the original entries from the /etc/hosts file?
If not, remove them and reboot - No more error

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Guido Conrad

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May 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/21/98

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We're very familiar with this messages. It comes (as you've already
mentioned) from changing the IP adress using scoadmin . To correct the
problem, look into your /etc/hosts file and you'll see 2 entries for one
host name : your host name. Just delete the old entry and reboot the
system.
100% satisfaction guaranteed.

Tom Phillips <tphi...@nospam.employersresource.com> schrieb im Beitrag
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> There is an article on this problem on SCO's website
> http://www.sco.com/ta. If those solutions don't fix your problem,
> change everything back the way it was and use netconfig to remove the
> card and add the card with the new IP address.
>
>
> Eileen Hilburn wrote:
> >

> > Today I changed the IP Address and Local Host Name on my machine.
> > When the system came back up I got this message:
> >
> > WARNING: portmapper on server is not responding.
> >
> > Also my machine name in Sco Desktop is still what the old Host Name
> > was.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > eileen
>