Labahn Dietmar wrote:
>
> No Problems like this with LPRng. Its mostly a wrong configuration. And
> using Windows as a print server-well it was never designed to do that
> correctly. I server dozens of printers with LPRng , print streams coming
> from windows, as400,aix and so on. No problem deriving from LPRng or Linux
> so far, but a lot from windows.
> Dietmar
>
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> Gesendet: Montag, 5. Februar 2001 20:14
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> Betreff: LPRng: lprng status - NOT ready for mixed environments
>
> I don't think Lprng in Linux is ready to replace Novell or Windows NT
> as a print server in a Windows -centric shop.
> When I tried to install it with Samba, I got problems printing from
> Excel or Word files into the print queues set up in Lprng.
>
> For example, if I tried to print multiple copies of the same document
> - the lprng print queue would hang, then the user had to delete the
> jobs, because the accounting created a number of jobs equal to the
> copies sent from the windows client.
>
> When I asked the Lprng author about that problem - he said that
> Microsoft Excel or Word were broken in the way that they send files
> for printing.
>
> The thing is that you don't have that problem if someone uses a Novell
> server or Windows server to serve your printers.
>
> Does anyone have any experience like this ?
>
> Any comments ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Juan C. Vergara
>
We've been using lprng to serve windows clients in various forms for 4
years (initially via lpr and now through samba) the only recurring
problems we've had have been with page sizes.
--
Iain Rae
(soon to be ex) Computing Officer
Dept. Civil & Offshore Engineering
Heriot-Watt University
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