On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:02:22PM -0700, Jack Downes wrote: > Similar situation here, 484 printers at current count, 2120 users > (hospital), and we've been pretty happy with the Samba/CUPS solution. > However, recently, too many issues with Samba an printing (3.4.5, > debian), so we've gotten rid of it, still use it for file shares and > such. Anyway, we are a straight to cups setup here now. several > scripts are used by us with Desktop authority to "convert" the old samba > printers to cups printers as the user logs in. It's working pretty good > actually, and our load on the printserver is always around .07... it's > flat amazing. For printing, I'd suggest looking at IPP - from windows > 2k on, MS supports it client side, so it's pretty nice. > > We are actually working on a system that will allow printer grouping - > eg, load a group of printers to a machine based on it's location or > presumed location. And have printers load to the system as a > system-wide printer instead of a personal printer - with all > driver/drawer settings correct. Yes, this is doable with samba easily, > but cups we've been having to do a bit of this on our side. Working > pretty good.
Guenther and Metze are working on the print spool code for 3.5.0. Hopefully we'll have a solution for you soon. Right now the best Samba release for printing is 3.3.10. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
