[PLUG] A net admin question

[Scott Chapman]

On Saturday 12 April 2003 16:46, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > Do you want to the application to execute and display on each
> > workstation, or is it within bounds for it just to display?
>
> Paul,
>
>   If two of us are working simultaneously -- on different data files,
> obviously -- then it needs to execute twice, no?

Linux will typically share code in memory so it's run twice but not using as 
much memory as if it was actually run twice.  Did that make sense?!

You can telnet/ssh to a machine on the LAN and run the app there with the 
display being on the PC in front of you.  So, it's running on the Server and 
being displayed on the Client.

You should also check out the Linux Terminal Server Project (www.ltsp.org).

Your post brings up one of the primary disadvantages of Peer-to-Peer 
networking - maintaining seperate copies all over the place.  Client-Server 
computing gives the huge advantage of central administration (typically in 
one place, not many). Thin clients are the epitome of this model where the 
client doesn't even need its own hard drive.

Scott