Bob Weekley wrote:
>
> I need to install 20 new AMD Duron 600 P/Cs along with 4 Printers.  The idea is to share printers among the computers.
> 1- Should I set up five P/Cs  in a cluster that share 1 printer with NIC cards and a 5 port Hub?    or
>
> 2-Should I try to set it up where all the computers can print  to any of the Printers?
>
> I have done number 1 but have never done  number 2.
>
> The computers are to be used in a school with the new Windows Millennium Operating System.
> Each have 64 meg of PC-133 RAM,  and the latest  Microstar Socket A Mainboard. (Duron or Athlon Thunderbird).
> Thanks for any advise on which way to go...
>
Bob:
(During the day, I'm a user, not a systems guy, so what follows is
biased.) Consider this: If one of the printers dies, or if someone sends
a very large job to the printer, what are the consequences of denying
service to those users? One of the first principles of reliability is
redundancy.
-- Carroll Grigsby

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