In linux.redhat.list, you wrote:
>Can we simply NFS mount the Sun directories on the Linux machines so
>that there is a common home directory for the accounts?
Sure can. As long as the students don't have the Linux root password it's
fine. You can also use NIS so that students can use the currently-existing
password setup on the Solaris systems -- i.e., no double-maintenance of
passwords. Someone who's done it will have to help you with that part
though.
Basically, once the machines are set up and configured they are zero
maintenance. If your system administrators are halfway competent they
are already using NIS.
Once the system is set up they won't have to do one second more of system
maintenance than they're already doing. Everything they do on the Solaris
machines (change a password, create a new user, delete a user, etc.) will
trickle right down to the Red Hat machines.
>Would we be better off have the entire Linux OS on each machine or
>should we have one PC act as a server and boot off of that PC? Is it
>possible to dual boot the PC into Linux and Windows with this setup?
Due to the current (slow) state of Linux NFS, it's best to have most
of the OS on each PC. On my network here in the office I have
/usr/local NFS-mounted also with a bunch of local stuff on it, and the
same with all the shared source directories etc., but performance is
too slow with NFS to do everything via NFS.
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