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]
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