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When you work in a tiny business, costs are everything. You can't always just throw money at a problem and hope whatever you are trying to resolve will go away.
A printer server would have been a solution though not a very good one because of the problem of access control and security. I couldn't print an invoice worrying about someone sending some document through as well.
Fast forward four years to a home/office network: I took the most advanced PC i had at the time and converted it over to a FreeBSD development platform running FreeBSD 7.0. Previously this platform was running FreeBSD 5.4, the most advanced iteration of FreeBSD available for that particular platform. I needed something more advanced.
The new Windows PC, I failed to notice, did not have a parallel port and the extra port I did have the PC wouldn't even recognize. The spouse's PC was a solution except that she doesn't like to run it too much and she doesn't have any room at her desk as it is.
The network has two FreeBSD servers running fulltime, one 5.4 and the newer one running 7.0. The older box is a backup server,which backs up remote websites for my business and for customer websites. Two other PCs also run FreeBSD, one 6.0 and one Open BSD 4.4, both backups, both normally idle.
The development server probably would have been a better choice except that on the older box I was also running Samba 2.2,which made that PC the clear candidate for a CUPS printer server.
The printer to be used is a Hewlett Packard Deskjet 932C, a choice which will be shown to be necessary for the printer server.
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