Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:35:29 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: "Dimitri T." <midios4@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: F i l e s e r v e r ? Message-ID: <3965EAB1.11915115@wmptl.com> References: <20000707091602.46026.qmail@hotmail.com>
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"Dimitri T." wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Well, the day before yesterday I sent a question and got no feedback at > all.. Now, before I end my life drinking the conium I'll give it one last > shot. Here's what puzzles me: > > I've set up an NIS-NFS server and a couple of clients to go with it. > Now it seems like a good idea to install any packages (or other apps > like staroffice for example) on the server and allow the clients to use them > remotely. > > Does anyone have any suggestion as to what is the best way to do this? > Should I export and mount on the clients the whole server:/usr? > I mean /usr is BIG, is there perhaps some better way? > > waiting (hopeless?) > Dimitri > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Suggestion: create a directory, install the software in that directory, mount that directory via NFS to the same location on all machines, and supply it's location to the user(s) path(s) who require the software. Example: Server: export /server Client X: /server -> server:/server, PATH=$PATH:/server/bin You might want to even look at some sort of service like AMD, or share all the homedirs over NFS as well. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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