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In a small network, clients and servers may all be connected to a single Ethernet without significant performance concerns. As the number of clients on a network grows, the necess...
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, when disk drives were expensive, it was more economical to buy one server and configure it with enough disk space to support several "disk...
This paper presents a machine configuration system which stores all configuration parameters in a central ``database''. The system is dynamic in the sense that machines ...
Managing large scale UNIX networks so that users can use resources on multiple systems is traditionally performed using NIS, NFS, and DNS. Proper use of these tools requires exact...