Steve Huff spake the following on 4/25/2007 6:47 AM: > > 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 Or Clark Connect http://www.clarkconnect.com It can be anything or everything, and the community version has very few limitations. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!