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From: picard@ilog.UUCP (Yves Picard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: One file server or several?
Summary: network organisation
Keywords: networks mew setup
Message-ID: <6095@ilog.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 21:32:49 GMT
References: <2669@levels.sait.edu.au>
Reply-To: picard@ilog.UUCP (Jean-Yves Picard)
Organization: ILOG, Paris, France
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In article <2669@levels.sait.edu.au> Chris.Rusbridge@levels.sait.edu.au (Chris Rusbridge) writes:
>Apologies if this is not the right group for this query.
> [...]
>But one consideration here is that we do not want our users to have to
>be aware of where their files are (in the sense of having to remember
>that their Pascal prac is on sysa but their 4GL prac is on sysc). The
>users are also very mobile, and will be logging in from different
>terminals at different times (probably mainly via telnet).
you might achieve the first goal by use of symbolics link:
suppose you have a dir called /udd (how original)
you make the following empty dir 
/udd/foo
/udd/bar
/udd/nil
...
where /udd/foo and /udd/bar linked to server1:/foo , server1:/bar
and /udd/nil linked to anotherserver:/nil
(as a matter of fact thing are no so easy but anyway ...)
the second goal (login from everywhere) is more or less difficult:
we are using a network of 40 machines with 4 main servers and 13 kinds
of computers (sun3 sun4 sun386 apollo hp9000 ibmrt ...) , we 'just'
copy every night "critical" files from a main server trough the net and
approximatively 38 out of 40 machines are working quiet well with it.

however if you net is homogenous you might try YellowPages.

	Jean Yves (john eaves )

PS: i know the stuff about /udd above isn't exact. more complete info
on required. no charge. no refund. no dogs allowed.
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