How about setting up a custom /etc/ for each client... doing something
like:
On NFS server:
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<export>/etc/
client1/
client2/
client3/
...
On clients:
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mount <server>:<export>/etc/client<n> /etc/
(where <n> is the client number...)
/etc isn't huge, so having multiple copies isn't a huge deal. You could
even keep common files in <export>/etc and have the individual client
directories contain symlinks (er... or would it need to be hard links...
getting ahead of myself) to them, easing the burden of common
configuration.
--Rich
David Wright wrote:
>
> Several posters have pointed out that I can get DHCP to assign IPs based
> on MAC, which goes a long way toward solving my problem. I guess if I
> share hosts using ldap, I can still give each machine a unique name, too.
>
> Now the only problem I can think of with sharing /usr and /etc is that my
> file server's /etc will contain stuff like /etc/exports, which will end up
> telling every machine to be a file server. Hmmmm.
>
> I'll go and re-read the Diskless-HOWTO, but if anyone knows a workaround
> I'd still appreciate hearing from you.
>
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Rich Puhek
ETN Systems Inc.
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