Need help configuring a print server

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


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[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

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