Brian, It sounds as if you have the solution I need! All the other machines on the network are windows machines. Would you be willing to help me understand how to set up the p166? I have installed/used RedHat, Mandrake, and Debian, but setting up the printing has always been difficult for me. I can install Debian on the box (just vanilla stable woody? Is that what I need?), but I am not sure where to go from there. What packages and what configuration I need to make. I can't pay you, but the 80 students working on the National Engineer's Week Future City competition (http://www.imerc.com/futurecity/Default.htm) will be forever grateful! "The Future City Competition is a national program sponsored by the engineering community to promote technological literacy and engineering to middle school students. The program fosters an interest in math, science, and engineering through hands-on, real world applications. The competition is open to all public, private and parochial schools. The national finals of the Future City Competition are a featured event during National Engineers Week, with students from across the country competing in Washington, D.C. The Future City Competition offers students a fun way to learn about engineering and cities of the future." Thanks! Mark Phillips Phillips Marketing, Inc. 480 945-0798 office 480 945-9197 fax mark@phillipsmarketing.biz -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Brian Cluff Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:08 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Need help configuring a print server Mark Phillips wrote: > 1. Is there any way to use Linux, the p166, and this printer to make a > workable printing solution (i.e. a printer server that allows the > students to share the printer)? > > 2. (I shudder to ask this on this list, so please do not flame me.I am > just trying to help out my daughter's classroom!) If I install Windows > 98 on the p166, is there a way to configure it as a print server? This > would allow me to use the Windows drivers, which work quite well. Are the desktops also linux? If they aren't, you don't need to install ANY drivers on the print server. Just use a raw queue and it will send the print jobs onto the printer exactly the same as the windows drivers puke them out. I buy up pentium 75s for $10 all the time and set them as a printer server. I keep a little 50meg debian based image that I just throw onto them that gives me everything one of those rather expensive stand alone boxed do plus a whole lot more. At my school, I have 2 drivers setup for every printer, on just queues up raw printer jobs for the windows systems and then another that handles the translation for my Linux desktops. ..and before anyone comments, I used to run a generic postscript driver under windows and run it through the driven printer, but people kept switching the driver into postscript level 3, and the printer only understands level 2. Somehow it seemed to get though to the printer and jam up the printer/queue and keep anyone from printing at all till I got in and cleaned out the queue. Brian Cluff --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss