Off to a roaring start

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Yup it’s Monday, and I was greeted this morning with a dead PC. The old 486 running Windows 95 that has been acting as a print server for at least the 7 years or so that I’ve worked here, is no more. I’ve been scrambling around to hook that printer up to one of the old laptops that was just sitting around as a temporary solution. I’ve got that running but still having some problems with some people connecting to it, even though I can connect to it with no problems. More troubleshooting…

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