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[Sean]

On 22 Aug 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> 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?

nuttin. I didnt know they implemented that. =)
That would make it even easier to implement though. =)