Dave fales matthew_17_20 at msn.com moving mountains with mustard seeds I >From: Steve Huff <shuff at vecna.org> >Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] hi >Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:47:32 -0400 > > >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos will try that one today wil let you know how it works