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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!tudelft.nl!elektron.et.tudelft.nl!pwood1!franky From: franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NCD x term help Date: 27 Dec 95 15:55:12 GMT Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Lines: 26 Message-ID: <franky.820079712@pwood1> References: <4b5erj$9v3@ionews.io.org> <4b7b5i$ltm@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4bh334$naq@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.pinewood.nl X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 CURRENT #2 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) writes: >> It should be just like with any other Unix. Put the server image on the >> FreeBSD box and turn on tftp (warning -- big potential security problems >> there) ... >No really big security risk. However, don't blindly enable the tftp [SNIP] >-- >cheers, J"org You can also use NFS to load the server image into the X terminals... Use 'bn' to boot the terminal (instead of 'bt'). My experience is that using NFS to get access to the fonts, etc. is *much* faster than using TFTP for this purpose. Server image loading is only done once... Using NFS may even be a larger security risk :-) -Frank -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- F.W. ten Wolde (PA3FMT) Pinewood Automation B.V. E-mail: franky@pinewood.nl Kluyverweg 2a Phone: +31-15 2682543 2629 HT Delft