[Sunhelp] Sun becomes xterm?

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:08:17PM +1100, Melinda Taylor wrote:
> Hello,
> I manage a number of Sun servers in my dept. as well as some
> sun xterms which boot off my most powerful server.
> Some of the servers are old, they are running solaris 2.6
> which is good, but they also have limited disk space so
> much so that most apps are nfs mounted off the main server.
> I am thinking therefore, since alot of time is spent maintaining the OS
> on these olders machines (usually only used by ne person anyway)
> it may be worth just turning them into xterms not servers.
> Is this possible? Can I just program the PROM on say the IPX or SS4
> machine so that it wil boot off the network or is there
> a significant different between the two?

One easy way - if they're already running Solaris 2.6, the Solaris 2.6 CDE
login screen lets you log in as an xterm to any other host on the network
that will allow it.  Look in the drop-down menu options.

Bill

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