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- From: g.bellavia@aston.pphub (Gino Bellavia)
- Subject: Re: setting up Calendar Manager on network
- Message-ID: <g.bellavia-231292103903@cs_mac77.aston.ac.uk>
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- References: <1992Dec23.030241.2267@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <1992Dec23.060054.1848@thumper>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:30:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.060054.1848@thumper>, meier@thumper (Christopher M.
- Meier) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec23.030241.2267@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> michael@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Michael S. Williams) writes:
- > >I'd like to be able to access CM from several different Sparc2s
- > >within the same local network, but each machine treats the userid with
- > >the hostname (e.g., CM sees "name@mach1" or "name@mach2", not just "name").
- > >Is there anyway to access CM identically from each machine? Otherwise,
- >
- > How about, "name@localhost", with a nfs mounted calendar spool dir ?
- > Anyone know of any problems with that? Only problem I can see off the
- > top of my head is contacting someone else's calendar, you have to know
- > the host it's running on. How about everyone running CM on one machine
- > (say a fileserver), with DISPLAY set to their machine? Then, "name@
- > fileserver".
- >
- > Chris
- >
-
- The way we use cm here across the network is to have the rpc.cmsd process
- running on one server (does not need to run on clients) and then always
- accessing user@server for cm data. When a user starts up cm for the first
- time it runs a script of mine to create permissions that allow user at any
- host to create, delete appointments etc.
-
- This is quite simple to set up as long as you have a reliable server of
- some sort. We also mount /var/spool/calendar on each client so that the
- script will work and so users can delete useless calendar files if
- neccesary.
-
- You could also set up cm as Chris says above with x processes displaying to
- each client. This is easier to setup but we didnt do that because we dont
- allow students to login to our server (unpredicatable cpu load on server).
-
- PS Under our setup the "For my eyes only" facility doesnt work yet.
-
- Also you might find it useful to read SunExpert magazine (Oct/nov? I think)
- which has an article on setting up the calendar manager for network use and
- for other resources.
-
- Gino Bellavia
- Senior Computer Officer
- Department of Computer Science & Maths
- Aston University
- Birmingham UK
-
- email g.bellavia@uk.ac.aston
-