I own a Brother HL-1250 laser printer that can be connected via USB only. I always had it connected to my Windows box. As I recently purchased a new laptop I didn´t want to carry my files around to print them. In case you have a similar problem here´s how to share a printer over your local network with a linux server. This article refers to Debian Lenny specifically.

Getting an energy-efficient CPU is the first step when you´re trying to build a low-power file server, NAS or whatever you might call it. A good choice for that task is an Intel Atom. Unfortunately there is no real choice about a good mainboard for the Atom. You can either get one of those old Intel chipsets where the chipset wastes more energy than the Atom or you get one of those nifty Boards with nVidia ION platform. They´re impressive, fast and... cost a lot of money. So you better have a look at AMD.

After selling my Taurus LAN a few months ago I was looking for an alternative NAS.