attn Loyal Barber: This post seems to be going along with some problems I am having. My problem involves windoze not being able to get an ip address. If nothing to share is not setup in Samba, it sounds like the problem might be there. My setup is simpler than the other person in that I only have the two systems. One running win xp pro with a lan card and internet connection. The other runs Freespire as 1st boot with Ubuntu as optional OS. There is also a lan card. They are linked with a crossover net cable using no router. This setup was working very well. What changed I do not know. Both cards are operational. I will be following this thread very closely.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Loyal Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 7:35 PM Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: new to linux --- In [email protected], "falesdave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok this is what I am wanting to do. Can I do it with Linux. My dad has 3 > computers, 2 that runs xp and 1 that runs windows 98. He also has > another machine that has windows 98. [This is] the one I want to put Linux on if I > can. This is the idea would it work: take the one I want to put Linux on > and install then install his other 3 printers onto that computer > then have a network card on it and run the other 3 computer through a > router. [In other words] have the Linux machine go into the router then run the > other 3 computers into the router. Then use it [Linux machine] to share the printers I > know they can be installed onto one of the computers he is using but > the idea is he can print when only one of the computers are on. They > each have different uses. Can Linux be used for that? My problem is with > windows 98 on the printer computer you would have to have a monitor to > start it up and turn it off. I have never used Linux before. Does it have > qa shut down process or can it safely have the switched flipped off > then in the morning turn it on? I know you can buy a print server but > trying to save money > Note: above I tried to add punctuation to make sense of what you asked. Linux can do what you want, however you will still occasionally have to have a monitor. Linux can be started without a monitor, but it is pretty difficult to shut it down without a monitor unless you have it shutdown automatically at a given time of day. See below. If I were in your shoes, I would invest into what is called a KVM switch. That means a box that switches keyboard, video, and mouse. It allows you to have fewer monitors, keyboards, and mice than one per computer. That being said, here is how I would do what you want to do without the KVM switch. BTW, the same thing can be done with Windoze: 1. Borrow a monitor, keyboard, and mouse in order to perform Linux setup. 2. Set up Linux with your three printers, a hub/switch/router, and network card. 3. Set up Samba in Lunix to share the printers: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_windows.html. There are other on-line resources for the same thing you can find by doing a search at http://www.google.com/linux. Get familiar with the linux section of Google because it is your friend. 4. Create a cron entry to shut down the machine. From the command line as the root user type: crontab -e That command will put you in the editor for the cron tables. In the first available line type something like: 30 17 * * * /sbin/shutdown now This command in the cron tables will shut down the system every day at 5:30 PM. 5. You may have to make corrections for the location of the shutdown command. You can find the location by typing "which shutdown" at the command line. The time entries for the crontab file are <minutes 0-59> <hours 0-23> <day of month 0-31> <month 0-12> <day of week 0-6 with 0 being Sunday>. The "*" is a wild card. A windows way of doing the same thing is likely easier to set up or maybe someone in this group can come up with a better way using Linux. Good luck. To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
