David, Didi Guys - unless thre is a compelling need for Mosix - e.g. compute-intensive applications; there is no reason to go that way.
The classic solution for a small 10 PC network is Samba and Pxes 1) Samba for shared file system - way better manageability than nfs, you can manage users, shares centrally 2) Since you are concerned with configuration management I would recommend PXES. (pxes.sourceforge.net ) PXES is great - we have excellent experience with it for diskless workstations and you can use rdesktop if you need Windows Terminal Server integration. Hope this helps Danny Lieberman OSI-Open Solutions Israel +972-8-970-1485(voice) +972-54-471114(Cell) www.opensolutions.co.il ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yedidyah Bar-David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "linux-il" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 6:09 PM Subject: Re: How to organize a small network? > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 05:37:32AM -0700, David D wrote: > > Hi, I need the group's help with organizing a small > > network in my office. > > The office is a part of a big corporation. We have > > about 10 various computers (couple of Pentium 4, Xeons > > etc) all of them have Mandrake linux installed. > > Every computer is connected to the corporate network > > (LAN) and has an additional unused network card. The > > primary purpose of the computers is number crunching. > > Currently the users' home directories are exported > > via NFS to the all the computers in the office, so > > everybody can work from any station, but the major > > part of the work is done locally on user's station. > > Users info (/etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow), > > configurations, and software installations are managed > > individually for each computer (which is a hell). > > I would like to achieve the following goals: > > 1. easier administration: can use NIS for user info, > > Or use something like rdist/cfengine, which is simpler. > > > but still have to manage software/updates > > individually. Can I mount /bin, /usr via nfs? Is it a > > good idea? Will this solve most of the problems? > > We actually have here "/" mounted via nfs. You'll have to invest some > work in this, but I think it pays. Maybe not for 10 machines - there > you can try to use tools to update confs/packages and only keep a shared > /usr/local. > > > 2. better performance and load balance. I'm plan to > > install openmosix and interconnect the computers, so > > the communication between them does not pass through > > the corporate LAN. Any other ideas? > > I do not have experience with mosix. We run here batch queues, PBS > in the past, now condor, and they are quite good for what we use > them for. It depends on your needs, of course - mosix is more automatic > and less work (I think), but less flexible and controllable (I also > think :-) ). > > > Thanks a lot for the help > > I would love to hear your experience. Also feel free to ask more if > you want to try a shared root. > -- > Didi > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
