cgh018@rti.rti.org (Calvin Hayden ) (01/12/90)
After months of speculation, it has been decided to go with sun
workstations here. The users moving to the suns are currently running on
a Vax 8600 System V R2 V2, of which I an the admin. We will be getting in
approx. 20 4/60's and 1 4/490, all to be linked over our local ethernet.
I will be the admin on the suns, and will be aided by another admin (she
currently is admin on a token ring of Apollos - these are moving to their
own set of suns as well). Now the questions...
Is there a good source of information on networking suns? Since I am
coming from a single machine, I dont have to worry about such things as
Yellow pages and NFS ( I dont have them available on my machine), but now
I am faced with such topics, and I would like to have a good source of
information.
Is there an archive of sun-based questions and answers available? I would
hate to post concerning things already much discussed, and such an archive
may provide answers to things I would post about.
Is there a sun security list/digest? I currently get some mail on
security issues, but I am now more concerned since we will be doing more
networking.
Are there any magazines that you find particularly useful?
Any books that you find essential or useful in addition to system manuals?
Anyone made such a conversion? Anyone got their own list of gotcha's or
personal information that might be of use?
Anything you might want to throw my way in the line of advice, etc...?
Thanks in advance. Please Email so as not to clog the net.
Calvin Hayden
Texas Instruments, Johnson City, Tn.
Voice (615)461-2254
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