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In message <1993Jan22.102513.16501@cs.utwente.nl> you write:
> I am currently running Open Windows server from the network 
> (let's call it machine N). Let's call my machine machine A.
> We got recently a SparcStation 10 (lets's call it machine B)
> which stands in our room.
> On machine B, Open Windows has been installed on a local
> disk. I suppose it would be faster for me if I run
> OpenWindows from machine B than from our network machine N.
> Is it so?
> If so, then I think I have two possibilities and I would like
> to know how to do it.
> First: do not run the server on my machine and just
> use the server on machine B and just display on my
> machine. How do I have to do it? I mean, what parameters do I
> have to set (DISPLAY etc.).
> Second: run the server on my machine. Then I would like to
> start the server from machine B, and not from machine N. How to
> do it?
> 

I'm sure you'll be bombarded with responses, but here is my two
cent's worth:

The SPARCstation 10 (machine-B) will be a faster server so you
ought to mounts its disc from your host (machine-A).  Place an
entry in machine-A's /etc/fstab that looks something like this:

   machine-B:/usr/openwin /usr/openwin nfs ro,soft,bg 0 0

Of course, machine-B must have /usr/openwin exported so it must
have an entry in its /etc/exports file that looks something like
this:

   /usr/openwin ro,access=machine-A,machine-C,machine-D,...

On machine-B, one must issue the command "exportfs /usr/openwin",
then on machine-A, the command "mount -vat nfs".  Of course one
must have root privilege to do these commands.

Once machine-B's /usr/openwin directory has been mounted, you
may envoke OpenWindows normally:

machine-A: setenv OPENWINHOME /usr/openwin
machine-A: $OPENWINHOME/bin/openwin

I hope this helps.

Ehsan-ul Gaffur
Systems Analyst
Biostatistics Center
Pittsburgh Cancer Institute