[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Print Server for a hetorogeneous network anyone?

[Scott Womer]

I looked over Cisco's "Case Study" and I'm not sure I really want something
that extravagant.  I'm thinking along the same lines as what you did Chris,
but I have a question...  using a "remote" printer configuration from my
other unix servers, will that still allow me to use -o "options" from the lp
command?  e.g.  "lp -oc -olandscape"   ?


Thanks,

Scott Womer



----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Cox" <cjcox at acm.org>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Print Server for a hetorogeneous network
anyone?


> Set the printer up on Linux.
> Setup a "raw" printer definition (pass-through) under Linux.
> Make sure the "raw" printer is visible under Samba.
> Have the Unix's use the regular printer (with filtering)...setup it
> up as accessing a remote printer queue.
> Double-click under Network Neighborhood in Windows and setup the
> "raw" printer (of course in Windows, it's not a "raw" device, but
> rather select the driver for that printer type).
>
> We did this successfully at work with one annoyance....seems that
> anytime a user "Cancelled" a Windows print job, lpd would go down
> hard!....I think it's a RH'ism myself....I think we could have
> diagnosed the problem and gotten rid of the issue, but instead
> we moved the printer back to NT (sigh).  The printer in our
> case is a Network Printer, so the Unix boxes can get to it
> by going straight to the printer....but I've seen this
> fowl things up too.
>
> Scott Womer wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone in our group done it?  Can anyone point me at some
> > sites/documentation to review to see how to do it?
> >
> > I would like to set up a fault tolerant print servers that can accept
print
> > jobs from win*, linux and hp-ux.
> >
> > The road I'm headed down is TurboCluster-Linux, with the CUPS spooler
and
> > Samba, all my printers are either LexMark or HP and all printers have
their
> > own IP address.
> >
> > I don't want to invent this if I don't have to, and I know there's
> > organizations out there that do this (Cisco for one), but I have not
been
> > able to find any documented "Case Studies" or "HOWTOs" on the
combinations
> > of technology that are known to work.
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott Womer
> >
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