Programmer Tip: Find your iSeries using a name server

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July 28, 2004 Published by  Search400.com    Programmer Tips IN THIS ISSUE:   >  The Lazy Coder: Find your iSeries using a DNS or name server   >  Three ways to configure remote outque to LAN printers   >  DNS and internal network lookups   >  The new iSeries-to-PC transfer request   >  Hot programming tips   >  Test your smarts: Who's who in the iSeries community? SPONSORED BY:  Search400.com Product and Vendor Guide The Buyers guide is one of the most comprehensive directories of vendor and product information on the Web. It covers a wide range of areas for your research needs, including Application Dev, E-Commerce Solutions, Security and more. Simply search by topic, company name or keyword and you have access to complete vendor and important product information without having to comb through multiple sites. Click Here! The Lazy Coder: Find your iSeries using a DNS or name server [Search400.com] by Andrew Borts So you need to give people access to your iSeries. By following these five steps, you can configure a name server that EVERYTHING in your network can use. And when you need to change IP addresses for ANY reason, you change it in your DNS server and you're done. It resolves the IP address for the PCs, so you change this in ONE SPOT, not many. How's that for being LAZY? MORE INFO: > View other tips by Andrew Borts Three ways to configure remote outque to LAN printers [Search400.com] Here are three ways to configure a remote outque to a LAN printer. The last option resolves the IP address using the actual host name from the DNS Server thereby removing hard-coded IP addresses regardless if the DNS Server IP address changes. DNS and internal network lookups [Search400.com] This user has a Windows NT domain using iSeries DNS services. He wants to add new IP subnets, but he's running into problems. Site expert John Brandt has some advice. The new iSeries-to-PC transfer request [Search400.com] The data transfer component of Client Access has come a long way since the early years of PC Support. First and foremost, it is now fronted with a GUI interface. But much more than that are the great improvements made to the data selection and output format options. Hot programming tips [Search400.com] Programmers take notice. Did you miss any of our past programmer tips? Don't worry. We've pulled together the 10 most popular tips YTD just for you. ISERIES QUIZ:  Test your smarts: Who's who in the iSeries community? Sharpen your pencils. It's time to see how much you know about the big players in the iSeries community. Do you know who created the computer architecture used in today's iSeries? Who's the guy in the cowboy hat you see regularly at COMMON conferences? Who is known as Mr. OS/400 Security? Click over and see if you know the answers to those questions and more. USER POLL:  Vote now Do you have plans to invest in an eServer i5? PROGRAMMER'S DISCUSSION FORUM:  Interact with other programmers Are you an iSeries programmer with questions? Join your peers in our Programmer Forum to ask and answer questions about XML, COBOL, CL, ILE, Web development, Java and much more.   Contact Us Sales For sales inquiries, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editorial For feedback about any of our articles or to send us your article ideas, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]     Free E-Newsletters! Select e-newsletters you would like to receive via e-mail!  Search400: Security Tip  Search400: Today's News  Search400: Administrator Tips Not a Member? We?ll activate your membership with your subscription.   This e-newsletter is published by Search400.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. To unsubscribe from "Programmer Tips": Go to unsubscribe: http://search400.techtarget.com/unsubscribe?track=NL-17&ad=488026 Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed. Contact Us: Search400 Member Services 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494