Systems

[droege@snapmail.us]

I have asked this question before and lost the answers in one of many
crashes.

Many of you have asked how you can help with tass.  One way to help would
be to be an "answer man" for my linux questions.  I hate to post simple
questions to the list because they are not of general interest.  What I
would like to have is a list of a few people where I could pick one and
ask a question.

Here is the type of problem that I have.  I now have 12 or so computers on
my network.  I think every one has some sort of problem.  The computer I
want to put my printer on will not find it.  The computer that finds the
printer won't connect to the computer that has the files I want to print. 
The computer that has the files won't write to floppys.  So the present
scheme is to copy the file to a third compute over the network, write a
floppy there, and then move that to the computer with the printer.

OK, from time to time, I want to work on such problems.  Mostly now I am
trying to run the telescopes, process the data, and work on code to make
the data batter.  So I don't often try to work on the system that does
what I want well enough to get the job done.

From time to time I would like to work on such problems.  For example get
cups working so that I can print to one printer from any computer.  For
this I need extensive hand holding.  If a few of you volunteer to be hand
holders then I would not have to bother any one very much.  Please, not
the same workers, how about some new blood?

Tom Droege