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