David Wright wrote: > > 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. The server doesn't have to export its _own_ /etc - you could have a seperate one that you export to all the clients. And you could probably symlink the relevant files to local ones in order to setup host-specific stuff. Richard