David Wright said: > > 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.
how about doing all the configuration on a dedicated 'client' and copy all of that data over, so it looks the same as the rest of the clients? instead of doing server->client do client->client or get a copy of vmware, run a client in there just for the sake of saving physical hardware. nate
