Hi,
After taking into account all differnt kind of reponses in this mailing list
to our previous question (LPRng: How we could protect network printers from
foreign jobs?), I would like to ask for advice of how should we design our
printing system, i.e., like a distibuted system, in which each node sends his jobs
to the network printers, or like a centralized one, where each node sends his jobs
to a printing server node, and this one is in charge to send all of them to the
printers. We see advantages and disadvantages in both decisions:
distributed:
advantages:
each node depends only on itself and on printers
disadvantages:
each node just has access to it's queues, so it can't know when his
jobs will be printed or has any priority
we can't protect our printers using the Allow Tables because we have
more than 10 nodes
centralized:
advantages:
a general and unique queue for each printer (easy to know when a job
is going to be printed, priority ...)
we can use the Allow Tables to restrict the access to the printer and
take advantage of the lpd.perms features to manage the print server node
disadvantages:
it just depends on one node
We have about 25 linux nodes and 8 windows, and we think that a centralized
printing system (using samba for the windows nodes) might be the best solution for
us, but we are not really sure, so we ask for any suggestion, opinion, comment,
etc.
thank you very much,
best regards,
roger.
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