Eric,
Let me answer your first three questions. I havent tried KDE out,
so I cant answer your last question.
1. The solution you need is called 'nfs'. If you are using any of the
popular Linux distributions, then this is already available on your
system. Do a 'apropos nfs' and read all the man pages that show up in the
list.
2. Reliability and maintainability will suffer if you put everything on
one filesystem. Take the case where some bad sectors arise in say -
/usr/local. With just one filesystem, your fsck has to run over your
entire install. If it doesnt fix problems, you may need to do (depending
on the severity of the problem) a Linux reinstall.
Now lets say that your /usr/local hierarchy is a separate
filesystem. All you need to do is fix that one filesystem. While you are
doing this, you cant umount it, remount it elsewhere, reformat it, or
whatever you choose to do, without bring down the operating system itself.
Any users that you have can continue their work as long as they dont use
anything that was there on /usr/local.
3. This sounds like a routing problem. You probably need to read the
Net-3 HOWTO if you dont know what routing is for. Alternatively, you could
publish the output of '/usr/sbin/route -n' on this list, and we could try
to debug what is going on.
Regards,
Kenneth
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Eric P. wrote:
> Hello
> First of all how do you mount a drive on another PC through
> a TCP/IP network?
>
> Second is there a reason why I shouldn't put my whole drive
> as one partition as /.
>
> Third I have 2 pcs in a peer to peer network with 2 working
> ethernet III cards but for some reason one of the pcs when
> it try to ping the other says the network is unreachable
> but in Winblows they both work fine.
> Any help on that would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Last but not least I just installed kde and set up my user
> to use it but whenever I type startx it starts another
> window manager. I have the .Xclients file in my user folder
> and it should start KDE but it doesn't work. I've even
> tried Loging out and tried rebooting.
>
> Thanks for any and all help you can give .
> Eric Peters
>
>
>
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