On Friday 28 December 2001 10:29 am, you wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm trying to work out what is the easiest way to provide a fail-over for > printing services here; All our network printers talk lpd but the desktops > are MSWindows98. Currently I have a box running Linux / samba to act as a > protocol convertor, however it is a single point of failure on the network. > > My initial thoughts were:
> Anybody any ideas? > > At one time there was a document in circulation called the HA Howto (high > availability) but I can't seem to find a copy anywhere. Anybody got any > good URLs? <http://www.linux-ha.org> I suspect that you might investigate the "mon" and "heartbeat" stuff there. Although, I'd imagine that CUPS should be able to do some of the stuff you need, i.e. provide failover print queues... Kevin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
