Tarjei,
I'll try to answer some of your questions below.
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Tarjei Huse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm considering different solutions on a network thats basicly 10 mb w/
> P166 pc's. There are a total of 20 machines on the network but the
> changeover process will start slowly w/ 3 - 5 machines going over. The
> network is hetrogenous w/ both macs & nt clients from before.
>
> I therefore have a few questions:
>
> 1. Running kdm/gdm locally.
> Why would I whant this? Would this reduce or increase network load.
> Also, if I run kdm localy, then authentication would happen localy
> right? So I would have to set up pam-ldap or pamkrb5 to run from the
> local machine, right? Also, the filesystem the client will see is the
> local one?
There currently is NOT an option to run the display manager
locally. So, just run it on the server. It's easier anyway.
>
> 2. I think I've seen this question before, but here goes: Is there a way
> to place global icons on the userers desktops (either gdm or kdm) and
> still letting the user decide what other items he/she wants on the
> desktop?
Sorry, that's a window manager / desktop environment question. Others
are certainly more capable of answering that than I am.
>
> 3. For thos who's got experience w/ mosix. How does mosix compare to
> using local apps to share out network load and use the local cpu power
> of the clients?
>From what i've heard, Mosix works really well if all the computers
are the same power. But, if one of the computers is much faster
than the rest, then all of the processes will eventually migrate to
the fastest computer.
>
> 4. If root is mounted rw, is it still possible to mount directories on
> top of root? (i.e. /home /shared etc?)
>
Root gets mounted Read-only, not rw. But, either way, you can still
mount directories such as /home and /shared. no problem.
Hope that helps,
Jim McQuillan
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