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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.