Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!cunews!cognos!alzabo!tigris!glee
From: glee@tigris.uucp (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: What is the best way to read news in a network.
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.040718.4302@tigris.uucp>
Date: 6 Oct 90 04:07:18 GMT
References: <1990Sep27.212347.15099@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Reply-To: glee@tigris.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Godfrey Lee
Lines: 18

In article <1990Sep27.212347.15099@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> I have C news running, but want to make it accessible to other hosts on our
>local network.  We can share files with NFS.  However the hosts are not
>binary compatible, so separate news software will be needed on the other
>hosts.

If you are not too worried about performance on the server, then just
install CNews on the server, NFS mount the /usr/lib/news and
/usr/spool/news directories (symbolic links come in handy here), and
then install separate newsreader on each client (e.g. rn).  To post news
articles, just have the appropriate postnews script (e.g. Pnews) execute
a "rsh <server> inews" instead of just "inews".

This also has the side effect that all articles appear as if they are posted
from the server, which is what you want the outside world to see anyways.
-- 
Godfrey Lee
cognos!alzabo!tigris!glee