No involvement of RSCS at all. LPRng has direct access to all the printers,
either directly, or through another (likely Windows) print server. Actually,
some of the printers are accessed through z/OS as well, allowing the output
to be archived there.
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On 10/22/07 8:10 AM, "Dave Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Robert.
>
> Does the LPRng application "own" all of the attached printers, or is
> RSCS involved somehow? Just curious....
>
> RPN01 wrote:
>> We use LPRng instead of CUPS because of CUPS' chattyness. We have literally
>> thousands of printers defined (over 7000) and the printcap defining these
>> printers is installed on over 100 servers. CUPS would overrun our network.
>>
>> CUPS is a great design for a desktop client and one or two printers; it
>> really fails when you attempt to scale it up to an actual server level.
>>
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>> .~. Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation
>> /V\ RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW
>> /( )\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905
>> ^^-^^ -----
>> "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but
>> in practice, theory and practice are different."
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> DJ
> V/Soft
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