[H-GEN] Floppy disk print server

[Patrick Nichols]

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Folks,

I need to bug the collective knowledge of people here.

Problem:

I want to share a printer on the network, and don't want to spend the
money to buy a print server.  I've got an old pc here, with a floppy drive
and no hard drive.  I need something that boots from floppy and creates a
print server that windows machines can use.  I have another linux server
(with hard drives) present on the network.

Solution:

1. Floppy boot samba server.  Don't know if this is possible.  Is it?

2. Floppy boot lpd server.  The other machine can be a samba print server,
and pass information to the lpd server in true *n*x style.

3. Etherboot off the network, and mount a share with samba on it from
across the network.

Which is the easiest, which works the best, which way would you go about
this problem?

-- 
Regards,
Patrick Nichols



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