Re: IP address change on OS X v. 10.2 server?

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From: Greg Merritt (gmerritt@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 06 2003 - 10:31:51 PST

Hi Eric,

        He ended up spending hours on the phone with Apple support,
who, in the end, told him to reinstall the OS and enter the new IP
address when prompted in the first-run configuration windows. They
could offer no other way to cleanly change the system's main (and
only) IP address.

        I believe that he could attempt an IP address change via the
system preferences, but many of the services (the password server
being the most important) would simply not work after the address
change.

Regards,
-Greg

cc: Wyn, magnet

At 9:49 AM -0800 1/6/03, esaxby@uclink.berkeley.edu wrote:
>Hi Greg,
>
>It doesn't work to do it through the System Preferences? This would leave the
>old IP in all the httpd config files, but those can be searched and replaced.
>
>I've never had to change the primary IP for our OS X server, but I seem to
>remember changing around the numbers for the secondary ethernet card this
>way without any problems.
>
>
>Eric
>
>> O.k. -- this is going to sound like the lamest question ever,
>>but my colleague has had no end of trouble trying to effectively
>>modify the IP address of an OS X server. The problems seem to have
>>to do with the NetInfo and password databases not groking the change.
>>He's spent lots of time w/ Apple support, and their suggestion of how
>>to modify the IP address is to reinstall the OS and enter the new IP
>>address when you configure the machine.
>>
>> I keep pinching myself, not believe that this is the case.
>>Does anyone have any experience with this? (Not the pinching, but
>>the IP address change...)
>>
>>-Greg
>>
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