Pete-
There are problems with XFS (last time I checked, at least) when serving
more than 20 stations or so. It will sometimes just die or stop
working. I've also had problems with it refusing to read in my font
directories after a time (this bug is known and there was no fix last I
checked).
So, it's probably not worth the risk of switching to XFS. I don't
consider either way more elegant than the other, though. Both involve
the same amount of work to add or change fonts on the system. Just
stick them in an appropriate directory and add that path to the
appropriate file.
If you want to improve your fonts, LTSP or just plain local X, read this
HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html
Jason
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:42:41 +1100
> From: Peter Rundle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I'm running Ltsp 3.0 on Redhat 7.2 and I'm looking for some help in
> getting the workstations
> to use the font server on the server rather than the workstations
> "local" font libraries. I know
> that I need to edit the lts.conf file and set USE_XFS=Y but can anyone
> point me to simple
> doco on how-to get the Xfs on the server to server fonts over the
> (local) network. RH7.2.
>
> The reason that I want to do this is to improve the fonts on the
> workstations as at the moment
> they're pretty poor. I know I could also achieve this by adding to the
> font directory /opt/ltsp
> (etc) but I thought that using a font server would be more elegant. Are
> there any issues with
> using a font server such as performance or version compatibility (the
> server is running X 4.0.2
> but some of the workstation are using XF86_S3 (i.e 3.3.6) as their cards
> are not supported on 4.
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