[Cvsnt] NTServer protocol and localhost

[Anthony Williams]

"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at system3r.se> wrote in message
news:3c7f096e.788373 at news.cvsnt.org...
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:17:33 +0000 (UTC), "Anthony Williams"
> <anthwil at nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> >Is it possible to get the ntserver protocol working with localhost, or
> >local-machine-name, especially when not connected to a network?
> >
> >Anthony
>
> A comment on 'not connected to network':
> If you have a W2000 machine that is sometimes not connected to the
> network (=laptop), then you will find that W2000 just unloads the
> TCP/IP protocol completely and there is no more a localhost even. This
> happens immediately you pull the network cable out of the NIC
> socket.....
> After struggling a bit with this I installed as a second 'NIC' the
> Microsoft Loopback adapter. This is not dependent on the network cable
> being plugged in and forces TCP/IP to be loaded all the time. After
> that I have had no problem using CVSNT with my laptop's name in the
> connect string (:ntserver:computername:/repository).

Aha. I have found MS Loopback Adapter in the Network settings, and have
added it. I will try it out next time I take my laptop off the network.

Anthony
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Anthony Williams
Software Engineer, Nortel Networks Optical Components Ltd
The opinions expressed in this message are not necessarily those of my
employer



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