Thank you guys for the helpfull responses
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: >Care to describe a bit what you do with this? Do the >users work on themachines or on a server (and the >machines are mostly XTerminals)? and he also wrote: > I know about pxes, and it's indeed cool, if it > fulfills your needs, > that is, if you want "thin clients". Thin clients (as far as I understand) mean that a server does all the work, and the clients serve only as terminals. This is not what I want to do, since all the computers are pretty strong and all of them are to perform independent intensive calculations, since most of the users work most of their time on one particular station. Thin client would be huge waste of the existing facilities. >Or use something like rdist/cfengine, which is >simpler. will check it >you can try to use tools to update confs/packages >and only keep a shared >/usr/local. this and /opt Danny Lieberman (Barak) wrote: >1) Samba for shared file system - way better >manageability than nfs, you can >manage users, shares centrally As I said, some of the users have their "primary" workstations - computers they work on most of the time. Almost all of them are doing intensive number crunching and have huge I/O to/from the hard drive. Putting their home directories on one central location will decrease their performance due to longer (much longer) read/write times. That's why we keep several home directories. >2) Since you are concerned with configuration >management I would recommend >PXES. (pxes.sourceforge.net ) >PXES is great - we have excellent experience with it This is designed for thin clients (correct me if I'm wrong). Not good for us >if you need Windows Terminal Server integration. We don't have a single computer with windows on it. I was also suggested to use LDAP to maintain users and maintain the rest of the system idually per computer, using a common configuration engine __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ================================================================= 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]
