[plug] nis success story

[Gavin Chester]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:10, Sol wrote:
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> I just wanted to share a small success story. I have set up a small
> Linux network for the Buddhist Society in Nollamara (where I'm a member
> and volunteer). There's a server (Suse 8.2) and four workstation clients
> (Suse 9.1). We've had Linux running there for a couple of years now. The
> setup has changed a bit since we've had more, and newer hardware
> donated. Today I upgraded the clients and installed NIS. I didn't know
> much about it, and thought it would be complicated. It took 10 minutes. 

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(My first posting since joining the group a few days ago. Hi everyone)

>From what you describe you are running "fat" clients to the server.
Yes?  Have you thought about running thin clients to reduce the admin
overhead?  Also, if you go "thin" most/all their older hardware could be
put back into service since even a PII 233 makes a good thin client -
relying on the speed of your server to become ridiculously fast.  Since
you like Debian you probably wouldn't have looked at K12LTSP because it
is built on FC3.  However, K12LTSP gives (virtually) PnP setup. 
Continuing to assume Deb. is your choice, you might instead consider
LTSP which builds on top of any distro.  But, then you'll know all about
LTSP, and me being new here don't know you know, if you know what I mean
;-)

Regards, Gavin.