Hi
Currently all PCs in our household using bitcoin all have their own local copy of the block chain. Since some of them are quite low on hard disk space, I would like to have the block chain on my Ubuntu server and all PCs running some sort of thin clients connecting to the server to get the block chain information. Is this possible out-of-the-box or should I look for a different solution?
Thanks
Jan
Bitcoin Core and Armory are "Full Nodes". Each instance will need its own full copy of the blockchain and it's own wallet.
If you want a thin client you might want to look into something like MultiBit. MultiBit uses Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) and doesn't store the full blockchain.
You should be able to set things up so that the MultiBit wallets only connect to your own full nodes and therefore get all their block and transaction information from the full nodes you are already running.