Apologies in advance: If there's a list where "user" questions should
be posted, please re-direct this message.
I'm in a group of parent volunteers with background in BSD, Solaris
and Linux that support the technologies at our children's K-8 school.
Because of the Windows applications and desktop environment that the
students are already familiar with, we've been dragged kicking and
screaming into Bill's World. We learned just enough about Windows to
implement low-cost peer-to-peer resource sharing in our computer lab,
which has 30 fat-client Wintel PCs and a HP network printer, along
with a few other odds-n-ends like a scanner and microscope that are
attached to a couple of the PCs.
We now want to transition the lab and the rest of the school to a
thin-client model based on Linux/Wine. For the moment, we'd like to
leave the lab as it is. It works and we don't want to re-design it
until we've got thin-clients running in the classrooms.
The first question is, How do we do simple things like printing in a
classroom? Will we need Samba on the server? Suppose a student in one
of the classrooms logs in to the network on a thin client. Suppose
also that there is a Windows PC in the classroom, with a Lexmark Z11
attached to the PC. What do we have to so they can print to the Z11 in
the classroom rather than to the network printer in the lab?
-- TT
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Tom Nelson Scott President, Vedatel Co.
1411 Sheffield Dr. Bowling Green OH 43402
"In IP We Trust" "E Pluribus Unix"
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