From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 18 23:29:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22708 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:29:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22702 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:29:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA15302 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:28:59 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA21761 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:28:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:28:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Diskless Workstations Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sometime ago I asked folks about NC's. Now I am back. Once again I am armed with just enough info to be dangerous. Would you recommend using diskless workstations? Would you rather be shot? I have read what the vendor's have to say but I would like to hear your advice. It seems that running diskless has a serious advantage of using the same disk space for all of the programs that all the users need. 100baseT can compete with UW-SCSI bit for bit on bandwidth. If wcarchive can push 747GB I can't see networking as being a bottle neck even with a large number of workstations. Administration is centralized, security is centralized, backup is centralized. (Do I sound like ncworldmag yet?) The only disadvantage that I can see is that the organization depends utterly on the network and the fileserver. I think that any organization that depends heavily on networking is stuck with this anyway. Any input is appreciated. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message