Cascade Driver for Hilscher Fieldbus CIF Cards: Version 4.1
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# attachNS

attachNS -- attaches the driver to the Cascade NameServer.

## Synopsis

    (attachNS [name])

## Parameters

A driver name to publish to the Cascade NameServer. Although this parameter is optional for backwards-compatibility, the command will effectively do nothing if a name parameter is not supplied.

## Returns

`OK` if successful, otherwise

        (error "attachNS DR_ERR_ATTACH_NAMESERVER (time)
        Could not attach to nameserver")

## Description

To communicate with the driver from the Cogent API (see `DR_ApiInitIPC` in the Cogent API manual), you must publish the driver name to the Cascade NameServer (nserve). The driver automatically makes itself known to the Cascade NameServer using either the name specified by the driver command line arguments (`-n` option), or with the device-dependent default name.

The attachNS command allows an alternate (additional) name to be published, if desired. The driver can publish multiple names by invoking this command multiple times.

This command is normally invoked from the configuration file.

## Example

        (attachNS io1)

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