Subject: User name lookup in PC-Pine

From: Henry Stilmack - JAC System Manager <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Dec 1996 14:00:42 -1000

Version PC-Pine 3.94, Windows 3.11

Is there any way to replicate the Unix Pine composer's username lookup for PC 
users (other than copying our passwd file)?
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Henry Stilmack   <[email-masked]>         Computing Systems Administrator
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From: [email-masked] (Justin M. Streiner)
Date: 5 Dec 96 14:44:09 EST

>users (other than copying our passwd file)?

That might depend on how those PC users are connected to your network.  If
they have access to some type of shared network drive (NFS, whatever) you
could possibly point the PC clients to a global address book which resides
there.  That's the only semi-efficient way I know of to do what you want,
unless your PCs are also NIS clients or something similar to get at your
password file to match the GECOS field when doing the lookup.

jms