> I am able to get an older Pentium laptop to access my server as an 
> x-terminal.
> 
> Is there a way to read and write to the local disk? In other words, I 
> want to use Openoffice writer on my server but read/write the data file 
> to the local disk. How do I configure this?

Setup /etc/exports and start your NFS services on your client. Then mount 
that on your server.

> The laptop has a minimal debian installation - just enough to get it 
> working as an x-terminal.

Install nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server or nfs-user-server on the 
client.

Or if you don't want NFS, use samba. But NFS is easy. Use google.
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