Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Smart/Dumb box again...

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From: "Brian Pitt" <bfp@...>
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> but I think that would be getting ahead of ourselves , for the development
> and tinkering stage its easy to just stack up a couple of old castoff PCs
> networked and booting from the regular drives as PLCs-I/O expansion or
> motion control boxes and downsize the cluster once the bugs get worked out
>

Hi,

I've been trying to set up a 486 as a dumb server but have hit a snag -
maybe someone could help me out. This box has windows 98 on it (it doesn't
seem to like linux) and the proble is that, when it first fires up, it wants
me to enter a password for 'netmeeting'. I don't have a password entered so
that's not a problem, but it won't proceed with the boot up unless it
receives an 'enter' from a keyboard. Obviously this rather defeats the idea
of a dumb server as it means I have to have a keyboard and monitor hooked up
to it so I know when to hit the 'enter' key and be able to do it. I'm sure
there must be a work-around - how do other people deal with this? Thanks,

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk