Re: [Samba] Advantages to using CUPS printing on a PDC
The only advantage I have found ist o set up a central pdf-printer with cups. So all pdfs are created in the users /home/pdf. For all other stuff you will be better with a network printer. --- EDV Daniel Müller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus Paul-Lechler-Str. 24 72076 Tübingen Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499 eMail: muel...@tropenklinik.de Internet: www.tropenklinik.de --- -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-boun...@lists.samba.org] Im Auftrag von Michael da Silva Pereira Gesendet: Freitag, 28. Oktober 2011 07:15 An: samba@lists.samba.org Betreff: [Samba] Advantages to using CUPS printing on a PDC Hi, I'd like to know the advantages out there in the field, using CUPS to print from the PDC. To me it sounds like just adding another single point of failure in the network, perhaps I am being blinded by windows printing issues to see the advantage in running all the prints via a PDC box? How out there has implemented it and has it helped? Kind Regards, Michael da Silva Pereira -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Advantages to using CUPS printing on a PDC
I'd like to know the advantages out there in the field, using CUPS to print from the PDC. To me it sounds like just adding another single point of failure in the network, perhaps I am being blinded by windows printing issues to see the advantage in running all the prints via a PDC box? Centralized management of printers? Print job accounting? Network printing to printers without a network interface? These examples can be important in some environments. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Advantages to using CUPS printing on a PDC
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote: I'd like to know the advantages out there in the field, using CUPS to print from the PDC. To me it sounds like just adding another single point of failure in the network, perhaps I am being blinded by windows printing issues to see the advantage in running all the prints via a PDC box? Centralized management of printers? Print job accounting? Network printing to printers without a network interface? These examples can be important in some environments. In particular, the ability for an admin to lock the printing to a single server, or pair of servers, on a dedicated VLAN and provide a single point of *management* for print queues. There's nothing like having to find the idiot who's been sending their 300 page print jobs to the wrong printer, and resent it 10 times because it kept not coming out, and get the jobs killed from their laptop. And no, they won't accept the bill for $1/page because it's the color printer: it's IT's problem to make this not happen, even when it's the same idiot who won't permit IT to *label the printers visibly* because it detracts from the ambience of the office used for presentations. Been there, had some idiot printing dozens of resumes for handing out to a poster printer. We got suspicious and pulled the plug on the printer when we heard it churning that long. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Advantages to using CUPS printing on a PDC
On 10/28/2011 12:15 AM, Michael da Silva Pereira wrote: Hi, I'd like to know the advantages out there in the field, using CUPS to print from the PDC. To me it sounds like just adding another single point of failure in the network, perhaps I am being blinded by windows printing issues to see the advantage in running all the prints via a PDC box? How out there has implemented it and has it helped? Kind Regards, Michael da Silva Pereira I see no advantage to use the PDC as print server, but I guess there are many ways to get the same results and it depends on the size/needs of your place. We have a couple of BDCs in every VLAN, one of them serves as a CUPS print server to samba on the VLAN and every user in the VLAN has it's printers configured. That way, the PDC serves a single purpose (it's also our master DNS btw) and it's easy to back-up and restore while users can keep working/printing in case something happens to it, although in 4 years it has never failed. Depending on the print volume and burst-rate, you may even do without a samba print server, for a small setup, an HP/netgear printserver may work. In our case, largish queue handling and print Classes (for added redundancy) offer a better advantage over 'hardware' printservers. Greetings José -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
