Hi, I've got a practical question for you network admin types. I can serve and mount NFS things all day long, but have a question about using this power for good instead of evil. If I have say 6 computers, and would like to have one central /usr, does this create problems when one set of software is run on one computer but not another? I.E., I have one respectable machine that does all the big memory intensive / number crunching things and some 486 / Pentium machines that are fine for outlying nodes. Rather than have netscape or mozilla hogging drive space on each machine, I could serve /usr. The hesitation is (this is a Debian network) if I install a package from one machine, what happens to the config files, since each machine (presumably) has its own /etc, /var, ... Or, do you share the drive, install from each machine, then /usr collects everything from everyone, and it doesn't matter if you overwrite something with the same thing. (I *shudder* at the kludgy nature of this!) Any tips on sharing /usr, /home, and integrating with NIS would be appreciated. I haven't found TFM to R yet. <g> Thanx, Phil -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous