RE: [Sheflug] Print Servers

["Alistair Williamson" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jose,

I was giving Feescom a go - but you need an (expensive) psudo port mapper to
print from a windows box!

I've just downloaded MuLinux - I'll let you know what happens.

Cheers,

Alistair


 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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