On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
We use a centralized system here for hundreds of windows (samba) and
macintosh (netatalk) computers. We do accounting into a mySQL database.
This system has been running non-stop for over a year now with the only
downtime being for software upgrades to samba, netatalk, and lprng.
On our printers, we only have the tcp/ip protocol active, and we use the
access control list feature to only accept packets from two machines: the
print server and a backup print server. We have never used the backup
print server, but it seemed wise to put a second ip address in the list so
we can still manage the printers if there are problems with the primary
print server.
I haven't seen any real disadvantages to our centralized print server
setup, at least in the way which we use it.
Andy Morgan
Oregon State University
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