We have thin clients running LTSP that work great as print servers. I have them booting off floppies and then getting the kernel image from the server Once the server is configured, setting up additional thin clients and remote x terminals is easy (gui configuration is a bit harder) Jon Shorie (jshorie@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Monday 29 March 2004 11:55, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Jon Shorie wrote: > > >On Sunday 28 March 2004 13:34, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Anyone got any ideas about the best way to turn an old 486 into a print > > >>server for a Canon BJC3000 ink printer (AFAIK not aWinPrinter) on my > > >>network? > > >> > > >>Thank > > >> > > > > > >We have several printers running here with various dot matrix/laser/ink > > > jet printers hooked up. If the printer in question, is not usb, then I > > > would suggest just using Redhat 6.2 for your print server. This is what > > > we have done. If it is a usb printer, then make sure that your 486 has a > > > usb port (yes some do) and then install redhat 7.3. > > > > > >We have as little as a 486dx2/50 supporting two dot matrix printers. Our > > >uptime for this box is 207 days. The only time that it needs rebooted is > > >when there is a significant power outage. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Jon, > > > > Is it not better to use CUPS with an ink printer or does it not make any > > real difference? > > > > Thanks.. > > I use cups for printing on our linux desktop pc's, but the print servers are > running lpr or lprng. They get along well as long as you remember on the > client pc to click on the strict RFC 1197 option in the printer settings. > > We currently have 4 print servers running Redhat 6.2 and LPR and 2 print > servers running 7.3 and LPRNG. The big advantage is that lprng will stay up > even if one of the print queues goes down where on LPR it is possible to > crash all print queues by just messing up one of them. > > >
