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Configuration
FSC as a transport system can be completely invisible to HP Desk users.
As with normal HP Desk transport, all a user knows is that the person he
wants to send a message to is registered at a particular location or
mailnode. If the name is registered in the Global Database then there is
no problem. There is also no problem if the location (in hierarchical
addressing) or mailnode (in normal mailnode addressing) is registered.
Either way the mail will get through--assuming that the configuration is
correct!
The configuration of FSC is similar to configuring NS/DS links for HP
Desk. A screen in Mailconfig allows for the definition of a
Computer/Gateway, which is very similar to the NS/DS Computer screen.
The only real difference is that instead of defining the devices used,
you define the IPC files used to output to a particular FSC link. There
are also fields to allow you to choose whether or not you want private
messages to pass through the gateway and whether you want to store
messages in privileged files. It is also possible to select the group in
the HPOFFICE account in which you store the nodefiles (these are
explained further in "Message Structure within FSC Files" ).
There is a second screen in Mailconfig called the Foreign Alias screen,
where it is possible to associate an HP Desk user name with a foreign
address. This allows translation of an HP Desk address into a foreign
address. For example, if Tom Roberts is a user on an IBM machine, and
his signon to the IBM is TRCHN.SOLO, then in order to send messages to
him on the remote machine, he should be configured as a user on a remote
mailnode (for example IBM/01) throughout the network of HP3000s. On the
gateway machine (that is the HP 3000 with the link to the IBM machine)
the mailnode IBM/01 is routed through the FSC gateway to the IBM machine,
and the foreign alias information is set up so that:
Tom Roberts/IBM/01
is associated with:
(TRCHN.SOLO)
Therefore, if anyone in the HP Desk network wants to send a message to
Tom Roberts, they do not need to know his foreign address, they don't
even need to know that he is not an HP Desk user. All they have to do is
to send a message to him on the mailnode IBM/01, and the address is
automatically converted on the gateway machine using the information
given in the Foreign Alias screen.