Networking

[Ian W. Wright <nospam [at] iw63.demon.co.uk>]

Hi gang,

As a complete Linux novice, I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed by all
the expertise displayed on this list and so it has taken a while for me
to pluck up courage to ask what, to most of you, will probably seem a
couple of very simple and stupid questions.

I have four computers sitting in various parts of my house and workshop,
all Pentiums, two with Windows 98 only, one with windows 95 and Redhat
linux 5.2 and one with RedHat 6.0 only and a couple of printers and a
scanner. So, bearing in mind that I have now given up work and am on a
small pension and so am rather cash limited, what do I need to
do/get/buy(yuk) to link all the machines together - hardware and
software - so that I can, at least, print from any machine and exchange
or access files between machines? Also, is it possible to combine the
computing power of the various machines (build my own mini Cray!!!! ;0))
- something like having a multi-processor machine. Is there software
which would do this or would it also need programmes written
specifically for such an environment?

Best wishes

Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK

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