Rowling, Jill wrote:
"Printing faults crash the Citrix servers". Yes they do crash if they have insufficient memory, Windows or otherwise. They also crash if they are the wrong version or have never been maintained.
This is a genuine problem. If you're running Citrix you've got multiple people using the same server. Even though Windows isn't multiuser it generally all works OK.
Except when those Citrix clients have differing lists of printer drivers. Ripping in and out printer drivers will often lead to a crash (they are written by Taiwanese hardware manufacturers, are only meant to be installed once, etc).
The answer is only to run one printer driver. This usaully means standardising on hardware (a problem when that printer range is superceeded and a problem if your department is the merger of three departments) or using only generic PostScript (and PS printers still cost more than non-PS printers).
Or installing CUPS on Linux as the print spooler. All CUPS printers look like a PostScript printers to Windows. So all jobs use the one driver. So Citrix doesn't need to stuff about changing drivers when differing users print. But on the far side of the CUPS spooler you can have differing makes and models of printers.
Of course, the best answer is to use a real multi-user operating system in the first place :-)
Cheers, Glen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
