Thanks again. I had typo for the name of the 1st host listed and it failed. You would think it will move to the next host.
Once I corrected that it works. Regards, Mohamed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:35 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: LPRng: How to setup print server redundancy/failover hi, on my clients I use something like: <printer_name_on_client>:\ :rm=<server1>,<server2>:\ :rp=<queue_on_server>:\ :sd=<spooldirectory>:\ :mx#0: naturally the binaries must be LPRng, though the server binaries don't need to. I just tried it on the 3.8.1 version (I'm running an older one) and it runs there too without any problems, you probably have a syntax error (?) regards ~christoph On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Osman, Mohamed wrote: > Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to do, > except it is not working for me. > > I tried the following: > > rm=server1,server2 > > but all I get back when I do lpstat is: no server active, > and it attempts to open connection with server1,server2 > as one word, which is not what I wanted. I have tried > separating space after the comma but that did not help > either. > > Any idea what I am doing wrong? An example printcap would > help. > > > > > > > Regards, > > Mohamed > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 12:26 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: LPRng: How to setup print server redundancy/redundancy > > > hi, > > there is a cool undocumented feature in LPRng which might be ineresting > for you: if you create an entry like rm=<spool1>,<spool2>,<spool3> on your > client all the mentioned server will be tried. I use this on ~2000 UNIX > clients with 2 servers and it works perfect. > > regards > ~christoph > > > > > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Osman, Mohamed wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have few centralized UNIX Print Servers with lprng and > > several hundreds UNIX clients that use them. The print > > servers in turn send the jobs via LPD to Windows Print > > Servers. The reason that was done this way is that we > > do not maintain the Windows servers. > > > > So a typical printcap on the clients looks like this: > > > > *:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printers:\ > > :mx#0:\ > > :sh:\ > > :rm=server-name > > > > This works as you expect, but we wanted to route > > the jobs (fail over to other servers) if the above > > server were to crash w/o impacting the users. > > > > I have updated the printcap file to look like this: > > > > *:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printers:\ > > :mx#0:\ > > :sh:\ > > :rm=server1 > > # > > *:\ > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printers:\ > > :mx#0:\ > > :sh:\ > > :rm=server2 > > > > The intention was if a particular printer is not available on > > server1 then server2 will be searched, or if server1 was down > > then all jobs will be routed to server2. That's not was is > > happening. At all time only server2 is searched, in other words > > the last entry is the one looked at. > > > > Has anyone attempted doing similar thing? Is there anything in > > the documentation that deals with this issue that I have overlook > > at? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > ===================================== > > Mohamed Osman > > NW Engineering Computing > > Intel Corp > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===================================== > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. 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