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 Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html