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Question about farm

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freakcrap

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About to setup a farm and a little confused here. I have never setup anything past 3 comps on a lan. Each one always had their own mouse/monitor/keyboard. Is there a way to setup several comps without having their own mouse/monitor/keyboard AND not using a ps/2-vga switch box, or do I have to use the switch box?

If I need to ask in networking, just tell me :)

Thanks for any help!!!

 
Try unhappy_mage's Fold Server. If you look around the forum you'll find it (I'm being lazy right now...and trying to finish a programming assignment).

 
There is VNC. Other's know more about it. It's a remote terminal service. What OS are you using on your system?
 
As long as they're networked, you should be able to pretty much get them going once, and then let them sit. There's usually an option in bios not to complain about keyboard missing, and it won't notice if there's no monitor. Make sure you set the option to have them come back on if there's a power failure. Nothing kills production like power glitches.

Fold-server would be a good choice for this; you don't need all those pesky Windows licenses, just an extra ethernet adapter. The next version will remove even that dependency. :D
 
They are several ways of doing it.

VNC refers to TightVNC go to http://www.tightvnc.com/ for details. It'll work on multiple platforms.

Or if your using winXP on your main rig go here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx for the remote desktop client for the Microsoft stuff.

I'm using Remote Desktop to an old computer I'm folding with. It's cheaper than a desent KVM switch. and works better. You can click and drag between the 2 computers if you have the remote desktop setup in a small window (640 x 420, 800 X 600) and you're running around 1024 x 768. Can't do that with a KVM.

The fold-server is for a diskless boot set-up. Where 1 complete pc with 2 network cards acts as a boot server for multiple clients which generally don't have anything on the board but cpu, memory, heatsink/fan, NIC (if not integrated), and maybe a floppy drive if you can't get it to netboot. No hard drives, cdroms, and even cases. You sometimes see them sharing power supplies.

remember to disable the "halt on error" section in your bios for your clients. Or they will never boot withour a keyboard or video connected.

good luck.

 
Sounds good, just out of curiosity, what hardware will your farm be gracing us with?

 
Got a few OLD comps gonna just see if I can get up and running for the hell of it. But I should be aquiring app 5-10 1ghz's here shortly. I should know more come Monday so I'm hoping everything goes good there, hehe

 
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