El Fri, 26 Jan 2001, tu escribiste:
> 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
>
Another disadvantage is that some jetdirect cards tend to hang from time
to time when they are receiving jobs from multiple nodes. I've had this
problem when printing directly from (several) win9X. The only solution was to
reset the printer. Also, the queue information you get is not always correct,
specially if you ask for that information when a job is coming in.
> 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
You can also do accounting, filtering,etc.
> 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.
I have about 110 stations (solaris, sunos,linux,irix,windows,etc) and recently
I changed to centralized printing (mainly because of accounting)
The only problem I've had is when I forgot to turn on the print server
after a blackout :-)
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Sebasti�n Pe�a M. - Ingeniero de Sistemas
Centro de Modelamiento Matem�tico - Depto. de Ingenier�a Matem�tica
Facultad de Ciencias F�sicas y Matem�ticas - Universidad de Chile
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