For interest I have a single cpu/file/auth server at home which I connect to with drawterm or a native terminal depending on which laptop I am on.
At work I have a cpu/file/auth server which is also my terminal. This is definitely sub-optimal, combining the terminal with the others means your host owner must be yourself rather than the usual bootes and I end up support two different auth databases (home and work) but it can be done. Running plan9 on current hardware was becomming hard as PC technology has been changing quite a bit of late, but this situation has been improving in recent months thats to the hard work of a few stallwart 9fans. -Steve