With all due respect, by the time you've spent $150, and have bought a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, you could have bought a cheapy computer, two nics and a cross-over cable. Fold in the cost of paying you for some semi-custom work, and this is even more true. With the cost of last year's model of value pc so very low, just about any solution using non-mass-market hardware is unlikely to be cost effective. (Of course, since your customer explicitly *doesn't* *want* a pc, you could disable his start button, or only partition 50 Mb of his disk, or run three copies of fast find in the background, or something.) Larry Fisk <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Jim; > I have personally installed this system for a client: > http://www1.ipc.com.sg/html/b200change.html > It is called the "Buddy" > Basically you install a pci card in a Win9X computer then run regular cat 5 > cabling to a box which you hook up a monitor,keyboard and mouse. > you can run all apps on the "host" computer from the second station. > Works well , only thing that doesn't work is sound on the add-on station > If I recall correctly it costs around $150, plus the cost of a monitor, > keyboard and mouse.... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Cook" <[log in to unmask]> > > I have a customer who has a computer set up in his office. He wants to have > a monitor, keyboard and mouse set up outside the office at a customer desk > so he can look up information without having to buy another computer and > network the two systems. The computer will be controlled from only one > location at a time. Can someone give me a list of the parts (cables, > switches, etc.) that I would need to set this up. Frank R.Brown Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html