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Hi all,

	The math dept. at Weber State University recently acquired 10
colorstations and a mono cube (all turbos running 3.0, of course).
Each of the 'stations has the basic 250MB HD (meaning the
stripped-down OS with no Developer's stuff, Webster's, etc.) but the
cube has a 1.4 GB HD (and the full release).  With ~10 mins. work I
had the machines networked and running great but then I found myself
faced with some difficult choices.

	I would like to make all the stuff on the cube available to
all of the stations.  Some options are:  

	1) NFSmount the cube's /NextApps, /NextDeveloper, /NextLibrary
	, /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary under /Net on the clients and
	then add the /Net/...  directories to the paths (anybody know
	off the top of their heads how to make the WorkSpace Manager
	know about those directories?  I can look it up, but if you
	happen to know...).  One problem with this is that PB looks in
	/usr/lib for some stuff to build, so I'd probably have to
	mount the cube's /usr/lib over the clients.  Oh, and I also
	have to make /usr/man a link to /Net/NextLibrary/... to get
	man pages (or tell man where to look).

	2) NFSmount the cube's directories listed above over the top
	of the corresponding directories on the stations (and probably
	remove the local copies).  This has the disadvantage that the
	Apps we *want* to place on the local hard drives will have to
	be placed in some folder other than /LocalApps because the
	local /LocalApps is hidden.  Once again, it is necessary to
	tell the WS manager to look in the new directories.

	3) Netboot the clients.  I *believe* (not having done it or
	even read about it extensively) that this will mount the
	cube's HD as the root of the local file system and will create
	a /<something> subdirectory and mount the local HD there.
	Again, it is necessary to tell the WS manager about the new
	directories where it can expect to find apps.

	Please tell me about any other options you can think of.

Questions:

	1)  In your experience, what is the best was to solve my
	problem?

	2)  In all of the above options network usage is going to be
	fairly heavy.  How much of a problem is this likely to pose?
	How about option 3 (netbooting)?

	3) In all cases, I'm going to need to add to the list of
	directories the WS manager expects to find apps in.  I assume
	that some dwrite is necessary to make this change.  Is there a
	way I can make the change global so I don't have to do it for
	every user?


Thanks in advance.  Post or e-mail your replies, please.  E-mail
preferred unless you really think everyone wants to hear it.

Shawn.

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Shawn Willden
swillden@icarus.weber.edu