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Re: [bagchi@hsb.baylor.edu (Surojit Bagchi): Leash problem]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul B. Hill )
Mon Sep 26 16:11:49 1994

To: bagchi@hsb.baylor.edu (Surojit Bagchi)
Cc: dosdev@MIT.EDU, pc-kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 16:11:10
From: pbh@MIT.EDU (Paul B. Hill )

>When I try to synchronize time, I get the message that the timeserver host
>entry was not found and therefore time could not be set.  However, I would
>have thought that problem was fixed, since though the program looks for a
>machine called "time", and ours being "time1", we changed the local hosts
>file in the /net/tcp/hosts to contain this alias.  The DNS for the 
>university
>has the entry "time1" for the timeserver, so when gettime (DOS level 
>works)
>returns to our LAN, it finds time as time1.  Why doesn't this work from
>leash? I'm wary of messing with source code, but I guess this must have to
>do with timesync.c ? Can I change the default timeserver to "time1" 
>externally
>and without recompilation? 
>

Yes, use AppStudio or some other resource editor to change the string table 
in Leash.exe. In the stringtable you will find a string "time" change it to 
"time1". AppStudio allows you to edit a resource in an EXE or DLL without 
needing to recompile.


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