From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 19 22:24:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21494 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:24:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (lsmls02.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21478 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:23:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gummibear@we.mediaone.net) From: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Received: from ale.we.mediaone.net (we-24-130-60-145.we.mediaone.net [24.130.60.145]) by lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA26884 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:23:25 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981119222844.006ba104@we.mediaone.net> X-Sender: gummibear@we.mediaone.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:28:44 -0800 To: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'd love a Tutorial on it all. I would assume that the NC thing would be done with a bunch of X Terminals, but I don't know enough of X administration to figure out how to do it all. Especially, with the new networked hardware. Can you point me to any sites that has info on this subject? Thanks. Joey At 11:28 PM 11/18/98 -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message