[Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread Joe Cipale
I have had it.. I have come to the butt-ugly conclusion that samba is nothing more than a clusterf**k for cross platform printing. I have been trying for 2 years to talk between my windows and linux printers to no avail. I am convinced now that despite my numerous requests from this group, even,

Re: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 03:40:36PM +, Joe Cipale wrote: I have had it.. I have come to the butt-ugly conclusion that samba is nothing more than a clusterf**k for cross platform printing. I have been trying for 2 years to talk between my windows and linux printers to no avail. I am

Re: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Smith
Wow, the 1000+ users we have printing thru Samba 3.0 and up would be surprised to hear that! We even have click and print working... the load that took off of our sysadmins (not having to set up lpr/IP printing and manually keep track of drivers) was definitely worth the week of tweaking Samba to

Re: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread John T Benedetto
That's funny... we have almost three dozen printers running fine across five different subnets on our campus with what the team would probably consider the ancient Samba 2.2.7. But - obviously - YMMV. - john in albuquerque On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 15:40:36 + Joe Cipale [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 17:11 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 03:40:36PM +, Joe Cipale wrote: I have had it.. I have come to the butt-ugly conclusion that samba is nothing more than a clusterf**k for cross platform printing. I have been trying for 2 years to talk

Re: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread Leon Brooks
On Monday 10 October 2005 10:26, John T Benedetto wrote: That's funny... we have almost three dozen printers running fine across five different subnets on our campus with what the team would probably consider the ancient Samba 2.2.7. The print-to-PDF facility added by CUPS is also popular

RE: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread mwestern
engineered the network traffic and built it from that. Good on ya lads! Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Cipale Sent: Monday, 10 October 2005 1:11 AM Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f

Re: [Samba] Samba.. not worth a f*** for printing

2005-10-09 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
I have had it.. I have come to the butt-ugly conclusion that samba is nothing more than a clusterf**k for cross platform printing. I have been trying for 2 years to talk between my windows and linux printers to no avail. I am convinced now that despite my numerous requests from this group, even,