From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Standalone, drawterm and auth In-Reply-To: <30373.135.214.154.104.1068254708.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:35:01 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8292e5d0-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 You pretty much have to have auth running on the server you want to drawterm to (or on a different server, if you have a dedicated auth already). as far as standalone mode goes, you are fine with building a machine that acts as a cpu/auth/file server -- just pick a kernel appropriate for a file server and add graphics and cpu terminal capabilities to it. pccpuf for example will be fine. the wiki has a very nice section about adding a standalone cpu/auth server, maybe it should be updated for fossil. andrey ps: poor mail quality due to ssh-ing to plan9, instead of using drawterm