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Making a server out of an old iMac
Uncle Long
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Alright. I'm in Alaska. I'm a reporter. Sometimes the meetings I have to cover last until the middle of the night on deadline day and I have to have them in within a few hours after they are over so we can get the paper to the press. While I was walking past my warm house from a school board meeting on my way back to the office downtown, it occurred to me that it would be as nice as hell to just finish the article at my place and print it out at the office remotely; instead of walking across town in the fuck all Alaskan cold.
Now, everything in the office is mac, as far as computers go. We've got an HP laserjet printer connected to the network via its own plug in print server.
What I want to do is to take an old iMac which was just rendered obsolete (for Alaska). How would I go about, and what would I need to do it, setting up a server that would allow me to print from home? Also, if it's at all possible, I'd like to use the iMac as a file server, as there are a lot of things that need to be shared throughout the office.
I envision being able to load my articles onto the server and having our other offices be able to look at them by logging on to that server, as well as my coworkers in the office that need to do the page layouts via Quark, being able to share their pages with one another and with the other office.
tl;dr: how do I go about setting up a server using an old iMac? Is it even worth the effort?
Now, everything in the office is mac, as far as computers go. We've got an HP laserjet printer connected to the network via its own plug in print server.
What I want to do is to take an old iMac which was just rendered obsolete (for Alaska). How would I go about, and what would I need to do it, setting up a server that would allow me to print from home? Also, if it's at all possible, I'd like to use the iMac as a file server, as there are a lot of things that need to be shared throughout the office.
I envision being able to load my articles onto the server and having our other offices be able to look at them by logging on to that server, as well as my coworkers in the office that need to do the page layouts via Quark, being able to share their pages with one another and with the other office.
tl;dr: how do I go about setting up a server using an old iMac? Is it even worth the effort?
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Not sure how you'd get a print server that you can access remotely... I'd check out the CUPS documentation to see if there's anything you can do.
It's certainly plausible, even on an old gumdrop iMac.