managing multiple machines

[David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>]

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.