On Apr 24, 2007, at 5:08 PM, Dave wrote: > Hi I just joined I have a serer who's purpose life is to be a > fileserver/print server right now it is running windows 98 because > it is an older computer look at an alternate os such as this will > this allow windows based machines to talk to it save files retrieve > files and also how difficult is it to install. you may want to look at a "turnkey" file server solution, such as OpenFiler: http://www.openfiler.com/ this particular project is based on Linux, but is designed specifically to be an easy-to-use file server, rather than a general- purpose machine. you may be able to use the built-in printing system to add print server capabilities to an OpenFiler box; i haven't tried to do so, so i can't tell you for sure. -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v