Liam Bedford said
> $300 is enough to get a machine without a monitor/keyboard/mouse and just with
> a network card.. turn on smb networking and share the printer (you don't need
> an Athlon to do that, a K6-2 300 with 32Mb ram and a 2.1Gb hard disk would do
> ya)...
Yes if all you want to do is drive the Winprinter (though I wonder how they work
when they're shared ? Usually the print client produces printer code e.g. Postscript,
PCL or whatever, and network printing essentially consists of gathering up this code
and shipping it off to a printserver which dribbles it out to the printer. What
happens with a Winprinter then, where the interpretation of Postscript / PCL / whatever
is performed by the PC's CPU ? Anyone know enough to comment ?) but if you need to
sometimes run Windows apps. then you're in keyboard/mouse/monitor land, or maybe a
switch, and you're back to the extra box on the table.
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator nobroin at esoc.esa.de
Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany
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