Dave,

Thanks for your response.

>Are these true network printers with their own IP address, or are they
>simple shared printers attached to a PC? Either way, Mandrake has
>Printer Setup tools to do the job, you just need to know what type of
>network printer you are setting up.

They are 'shared' printers without ip addresses, so please advise on how to
activate them.

>If your hardware can handle it, I would definitely recommend the upgrade
>to 8.1. Since 8.2 is still beta, you might want to wait a bit for that.

>I am running 8.1 on my IBM ThinkPad (laptop). Specs: 366MHz Celeron,
>256MB RAM, 4.5GB HD, and using ReiserFS. It is quick and stable, much
>more than I can say for the Win98 which was originally on the box.

The Dell has a 366P2 chip with 128Mb RAM and a 6Gb HD. I'm coming from Mac
(unstable) and WinNT (v stable) environments towards Win2K and Linux at the
same time (new laptop).

George


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