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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9792.0. "Sun's Auto Client what is it?" by SWAM1::POIANI_MI () Tue May 13 1997 02:14

    I was asked if we have anything like AutoClient from Sun. Now I have
    heard of jumpstart and knew to compare it to RIS, what is Auto Client,
    I guess it has to do with remote file access capabilities?
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9792.1HYDRA::SMITHTom Smith ZKO1-3/H42Tue May 13 1997 13:475
    automount (8) maybe? It's the same thing by the same name on Sun. Used
    for automatically NFS-mounting/unmounting remote directories as they
    are used.
    
    -Tom
9792.2GERUND::WOLFEI'm going to huff, and puff, and blow your house downWed May 14 1997 12:4621
It's not automount. I don't have a lot of details but I saw a demo of
it at the '95 UNIX Expo. Here is the excerpt from my trip report:

     I went over to the Sun booth and met another completely
     incompetent booth person. He was supposed to be demoing
     Distributed Software Management and a tool called AutoClient. I got
     the brochure for this product and it seems very impressive. Basically,
     you have a central server where you fill out a simple dialog box per
     client ws to provide info like hostname, ethernet address, ip-addres,
     etc. The client then does a "boot net" to automatically boot up. There
     is special smarts built in such that all client writes are mirrored on
     the server (so you never need to do local backups) and the client can
     automatically(?) cache frequently used files to improve perfomance.
     It's akin to a DECathena style approach to system management.
     When I asked what this has to do with Distributed Software
     Management he replied that you could centrally install software on
     the server and thus all the clients would have access to it. Geesh. 

I'm sure you can find more technical details/specs on Sun's web pages. 

			Pete