From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Bob Solomon Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII References: <20010103014053.7DA0A199E4@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] passwd Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:39:34 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4964fcd8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > What I couldn't do was set a password. Passwd returns "protocol > botch: cs: can't translate address(net!$auth!ticket)." I assume > this is because it is a stand alone system. The system has a > NIC that I hope to use for printing &c on my LAN. Any workaround or > suggestions? > > If you do want to connect to it remotely, > you'll want to set up a standalone cpu/auth > server. plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/start.pdf > has some info on that near the end. > > Russ Thanks. I'm confused about these stand-alone-cpu/auth-servers. Does all this run on one box? That is, can the auth server run on the stand alone box?