Re: chgtcpdmn

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Troy Dills wrote:

> Does anyone know why I would recieve this message in the
> qsysopr when I use the command chgtcpdmn. Every thing is
> setup right. We can see the 400 on some PC's but not all.
> The 2 pc's that we can't see the 400 on is a win98 and a
> winXP pro pc, if that helps.
>
> The AS/400 Support for Windows Network Neighborhood
> (AS/400 NetServer) was unable to start.
>
> AS/400 Support for Windows Network Neighborhood (AS/400
> NetServer)QS10B0379 ended.
>


This surprises me... I wouldn't expect CHGTCPDMN to have any effect on
NetServer.  (Aside from the potential that the name resolution might
be improved)

I guess I'm not clear why you're running CHGTCPDMN, if everything is
already set up correctly, you shouldn't need to run it.   I also don't
see what it has to do with 'seeing PCs' (which, to me, means it doesn't
pop up in Network Neighborhood) or what it has to do with the error
messages you posted.

You aren't confusing 'Windows NT Domains' with TCP/IP domain names, are
you?  They're two completely different things with similar names.

The CHGTCPDMN command is used to change your DNS server, and which DNS
domains get searched.    For example, if I have my domain in 'CHGTCPDMN'
set to 'klements.com', then I can do a PING RMTSYS('foo') to ping
'foo.klements.com'.   I don't have the type the entire domain.

anyway, that's what CHGTCPDMN is for, changing the way that DNS behaves.
Normally, you only run this command when your network configuration has
changed.