[9fans] A real newbie question

[Helio Takai takai@bnl.gov]

Hi,
After having the CD for more than a year in my drawer I decided that
I have to install it... So I did.
I went as far as installing the CD on a pentium 60, with 48Mb, #9GXE-pci
video card, bus-logic SCSI and a couple of recycled SCSI disks.
81/2 works great, etc...

I am having some difficulties
configuring the network. My main problem is to access our domain name
server. We have in our lab two machines that serves this purpose. The
question is how can I do that?  I imagine that this needs to be included
in /lib/ndb/local, is this correct?

Other question - how to add users? I have tried the newuser script, but
it complains that cannot cd to /usr/$user or something like that.

So you see...these are real newbie question... I am not a real computer
expert, but would like to understand if plan9 or something in these
lines could be used in high energy physics. In particular for the
data analysis, where many users share a common set of data. Reading
the several papers it seems that this is the case....

Any help is greatly welcomed!

Cheers, Helio Takai
takai@bnl.gov