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[Ben Pfaff]

Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:

> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Adam wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote:
> > 
> > >Also it requires people to run and maintain these labs.
> > 
> > Windows requires it too, its literally my job, I know it does.
> > The Advantage to UNIX is you do not have to be seen doing it :)
> 
> If you just dedicated a lab to it, you could just netboot the machines be
> diskless then do something like nfs to _their_ shared space. Which would
> be a huge advantage to the user. It would be kind of like having an
> engineering account. You wouldnt have to transport any of your files from
> lab to lab because they would all be on the server. 

How would this be different from the AFS space that all MSU users
already have?