RE: [Fwd: [seul-edu] Samba and printing]

["Culp, David" <CulpD@cfbisd.edu>]

I agree, my main question is "why".  I can understand doing it this way for
our 90 lab computers that print to a remote deskjet, but the workstations
should spool their own jobs. I see no reason to share the wrokstation
printers with anyone.  However, he is dead set on doing it this way. I have
set up Samba many times, but never set up Samba to spool for a remote
printer attached to a workstation, and then send it back.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Wildman [SMTP:jawildman@cfanet.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 18, 2000 8:39 AM
> To:	'seul-edu@seul.org'
> Subject:	RE: [Fwd: [seul-edu] Samba and printing] 
> 
> After my other rather flippant post, this solution occurred to me as
> well.  It is slow (ie, job from pc to server back to pc & out the
> parallel port) but it does work.  This is probably what Jeremy Allison
> had in mind as well.  
> 
> They all get spooled centrally if that is how the local machines were
> setup.  Unless you have alot of people printing to printers on other
> people machines, then this is a complicated solution to a simple problem
> (the whole spooler idea).  
> 
> So yes, Linux can do it (probably better than NT), but a better question
> would be 'Why?'.
> 
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> 
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Culp, David wrote:
> 
> > I talked to the sys admin here, the box needs to be a print spooler for
> all
> > 60 Deskjet printers connected via parallel port to the local
> workstations.
> > He currently has a Win NT box that acts as print spooler and file
> server,
> > however, when  large numbers of teachers go to print at one time he says
> it
> > bogs the server way down and he wants to offload the task to a dedicated
> > print spooler.  I asked him why he just did not use the individual
> > workstations as print spoolers for the printer attached to them and he
> says
> > that in a Windows NT network a print job automatically gets spolled on a
> > central print spooler (is this right)?????????  That sounds pretty
> > inefficient to me.  He would like to know if Linux can handle the job
> better
> > and more efficiently than a dedicated Windows NT print server.  The 'you
> can
> > aquire Linux for free' thing is not an issue here as the district has
> loads
> > of money for technology. He has been reading a lot lately about the
> > stability of Linux.  He is currently required by the district to reboot
> the
> > Windows NT server once per week to keep it running smoothly.