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From: p576spz@mpirbn.UUCP (S.Petra Zeidler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Managing a network of UNIX workstations
Summary: our experience
Message-ID: <514@mpirbn.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 13:38:03 GMT
References: <3949@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <9338@cbmvax.commodore.com> <12938@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: spz@mpirbn.UUCP (S.Petra Zeidler)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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We've got 3 "systemless" DS3100 being servered by a VS3100.
We are using Yellow Pages, home is /home/$VAXname/$USERname,
swap and /tmp are on local disc (/tmp to speed up compiling);
I called the Riscs systemless because they have data-discs connected
to them (640 Mb = one data-set) which get moved according to need.
(Would that answer your removable data-carrier problem ? :^} )

System security and look-alike-ness :
      only root is allowed to log in on the VS3100;
      changes to the DS3100's systems are done on the server.

Backup:
      data are to be saved by the users,because only they know when
      it's sensible;
      home and the like is all on the server.

Our net is running fine enough for 3 machines, but our next DS3100
will be standalones because the net would go down too much if 6 users
compiled simultaneously (3 users already sync themselves fine,thank you 8^} );
also we might want to run a machine single-user with a really huge job.

I hope this helps you on
			   spz

uunet!unido!mpirbn!spz  or spz@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
I represent the opinion of a small blue extraterrestrial I happen to know;
noone elses, not even my own.
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