Re: [Sheflug] Print Servers

[JOSE LUIS GOMEZ DANS <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>I have acquired 4 low end Pentium machines for my school project, (I think
>they are P75's) They don't have CD-ROM's and only about 500 MB hard drives.
>I would like to use them as printer servers. I have heard  of a Linux based
>printer server that fits on a floppy! Does anyone know of such a tool? Or
>where I could find something suitable?
>

P75s with such large hard disks run wonderfully as webservers, printer 
servers and so on (namely, just one of the above tasks :D) for medium 
networks. As for the distribution, I tend to use debian, as it installs 
and doesn't add much unneeded cruft (X, KDE/Gnome...). For the printer 
server, you might want to check mulinux, as they have a little samba 
server add-on. The drawback is that it uses an old version of samba 
(1.x?), and it is quite hard to add any other kind of service (old 
kernel, libc5 and so on). Your machiens are good enough to fit 
slackware, Debian or even a BSD which is more current than one of the 
single floppy offers.

Hope that helps :-)
José




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