On Wednesday, 18 בApril 2007 12:47, Israel Shikler wrote: > I have a need of setting a Samba server ON A Linux RH or HP/UNIX in order > to maintain windows printers drivers in one central repository which should > NOT be a windows server.
Your bible is: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/classicalprinting.html > Is Samba stable enough to support any numbers of users (more than 500). > Any pitfall that we should avoid? Generally Samba is used by sites with thousands of users for many years so in terms of stability you are at least safe as your Windows servers. > The goal of course is to maintain printers drivers by one administrator on > the Linux or HP box and enable users to self install printers drivers from > that server > on their PC. 1. If you go with HP-UX box, you can either compile your version from samba.org or use the HP product. The HP product is standard part of HP-UX (which is helpfull if you have support contract), but is obviously older than the latest source package. 2. The pro in using Linux is that most modern distros (including RedHat) use cups for printing which helps a lot in maintaining such a setup. Hope it helps, -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 It's not the software that's free; it's you. - billyskank on Groklaw ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
