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Old 01-19-2008, 06:11 AM
The Natural Philosopher
 
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Default Re: thanks to the group

steve wrote:
> About 4 weeks ago I asked the group about a diskless print server. A
> few of you mentioned Freesco. I just wanted to say that I downloaded
> it configured it. (Ok took me a couple of days off and on to
> configure) But it works like a charm. I just have one printer on it
> but it can use 10. I'm astounded that a copy of linux on a floppy
> disk, can be a print server, even have email, and fire wall. It blows
> my mind. Using it saves our charity one XP licence. If anything goes
> wrong (which it has not in 2 weeks) I just reboot and let it boot off
> the floppy and walk away. Its done.
>
> Anyway thanks to those who suggested it and if you are looking for the
> simplest thing its a winner.
>


Shame you aren't in the UK, or I could have sent you a free print server
in a box..

They retail on ebay for about $10 if they sell at all.

Then you could have used the computer for something more interesting..
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