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How to netwrok several TinyCore workstations and a server?

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Anubis:
Hello all,
I need to setup a server with a small number of workstations not more than 12. The workstations will be running TinyCore and would have to run an application hosted on the server.

Now I thought about setting up NFS in order to export the directory containing the program to run and mount such folder on the workstations.

I was thinking of using TinyCore on the server to match the clients so there are no conflicts between nfs versions, as I read there are issues sometimes.

So my question is, should I just setup a FTP server instead?


Any advice is welcomed.

ananix:
  I would scp it.                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                       
  But you are not naming any issues but just ways to access network resources, in that regards i also wanna mention rcp.

  Is it because you dont want a local copy and want to execute it from its network location? That would be a reason for NFS, but then i dont understand the ftp surgestion :)

  -- Regards Andreas

Anubis:
Thanks for your reply ananix
What I need is to export a directory on the server "lets call it /share" in which I will have a number of batch files.
I would then boot TinyCore from USB drives for example, and I need to mount the remote /share folder locally upon boot.
I do not have experience doing this but assumed the proper setup would be using NFS correct?
I realize FTP is not the solution I need.

In other words I have to run a program on multiple systems, and to make it easy to update (as it has several updates a year).
The decision   was made to have the program run remotely so the files were updated on the server side and only once instead of wasting time deploying multiple copies across each workstation.

I wanted to know if anyone had experience setting something similar to this if they could throw me a couple of tips.

Also, I was concerned of mixing different versions of linux  for example a fedora o ubuntu as the server might cause issues if using a tinycore/minicore Linux workstations by mixing different  versions of NFS. I read somewhere that sometimes non matching versions of NFS cause issues. (For that reason I chose to use Tinycore as both server and client.

Sorry for the redundant information.

To the moderators, sorry I posted this in the wrong category.

ananix:
NFS is for sharing files only, you can always experience problems with any protocol implementation between any platforms, but in a homogenous env as you describe its gonna be minimal.
NFS is not for online transactions.
From the sounds of what you are gonna use it for NFS is just the right thing as it sounds like it only loads the batch job from there not its data.

tinypoodle:
The way I understand, ssh might be an approach.

Do you have to execute any apps depending on X or not?

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