On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Lee Larson <llarson at louisville.edu wrote:
> I now do the same thing now with the Linux box in my downstairs > office. That Linux mail server we retired at Pitt a while back could > probably do a good job at it because this is almost a no-load job. > We'd need a small (5G or so) hard drive and maybe a USB card. I use a Beige G3 in a closet next to my wi-fi router to act as my print and backup server. It is running Panther with the help of XPostFacto and has two USB printers plugged into a USB card. Just plain vanilla 10.3.9 with print and file sharing turned on. Works fine with all the Macs. It's a great solution because I can print wirelessly from my iBook from anywhere around the house. My favorite spot is out on the back deck! And Lee is right: it doesn't require much horsepower to serve up a print queue. If a Beige G3 with only a 160 meg can do it... Man, have you seen the price of Beige boxes on eBay lately? Beige G3 cluster anyone? Today, though, I'm struggling to get my token Windoze box to print to it, but THAT'S another story. No WONDER I don't have any hair left! j. -- Jonathan Fletcher jfletch at newmediaconstco.com | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
