Hi all, I'm really starting to hate my customer..... We have installed a Linux server at a client site in the city and the box does LPR prints to remote printers. Some of these printers are in the city and the others are in a remote site. When printing to these local city printers, thhey come out quick and fast but when printing to these remote printers they can take up to an hour at worst. What I come down to is the frame relay link (64Kb) between the 2 sites is slow as I ping the printers from the city/server to the suburb/printer and they get real bad at times 4-5 seconds. This is the only thing I can think of but what baffles me is that the network traffic has been the same for quite some time and the difference before was they had a terminal server which sucked the print jobs over to the suburb branch. So why does LPR make such a big difference? Can anybody explain this to me or is it that LPR tries to print and fails , then tries again in 15minutes or something?????? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
