HP 3000 Manuals

Using NS3000/XL Network Services

Network Names 

When each computer system is configured as part of an NS3000/XL network,
it is assigned a unique  node name.  You use this node name to log on to
each computer system.

You can log on to a specific session within a node by employing a
user-defined name known as an  environment ID. A default  environment ID
is the node name itself.  In order to designate a remote file or device,
you must include its remote  environment ID in an extended file
designator, for example, FILEX:ENV1.  You can maintain multiple remote
sessions on a single node by specifying a new  environment ID for each
new session.

Figure 1-2 shows that a user on node  TOM has four remote environments on
node HARRY, one of which was given the default name HARRY.


          Figure 1-2.  Opening Several Remote NS3000/XL Sessions 

A  node name or an  environment ID may optionally be qualified with a  
domain and  organization.  The domain and  organization are arbitrary
labels that the network manager specifies when configuring each node into
the network.  For example, in the name EMPIRE.DCL.IND, the  node name is
EMPIRE, the domain is  DCL, and the organization is  IND.

You can find full details on  node names,  environment IDs, and  remote
file designations in the chapters on "Virtual Terminal" and "Remote File
Access" in this manual.  For convenient reference, the syntax for  node 
names and  environment IDs is given here.

     node[.domain[.organization]]
     envname[.domain[.organization]]

If you do not qualify the  node or  envname in a user-level command or
intrinsic, the configured  domain and  organization of the local node are
assumed by default.  Each  node, envname, domain, or  organization
specification can be up to 16 characters long, and can include
alphanumeric characters, the underscore ( _ ), and the hyphen (-).  The
first character of each  node, envname, domain, or  organization name
must be alphabetic.

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