Burt Adjoodani wrote:
> I am really interested in SMB uses with lrp and printing.
> Has anybody been able to make it work with NO hard drive?
Someone has set up LRP as a print server; however, this is using UNIX
lpr not Samba. Samba is quite large (even extraordinarily so), thus
would likely occupy an entire floppy by itself.
> We have 2 LRP boxes here, 1 Linux Samba Server, 1 Linux Email & Proxy
> & Intranet Web server (FAQ , Sendmail, Squid and such), 1 Web server
> (apache) and multiple print servers. Our main server is an AIX
> RS6000. We also have one stinkinNT server box.
> We have 40 clients running win9x that I desperately want to convert
> to remote Xterminals.
> I have noticed the Linux Samba server does a better job of file
> serving even though it has less ram and a slower processor.
UNIX printing has a long history of being..... shall we say, "painful"?
Why not configure LRP to use lpr and create a remote lpr printer on the
Samba server, and then create a Samba printer to print to that? Like
this:
Win95(client) -> SambaServer(printer):lpr(printer) ->
RemoteLRP(lpr):printer
Each "->" denotes network traffic from one host to another...
> I would like help on a hard drive less LRP Samba
> print server and LRP remote xterminals. Are both projects feasible?
> Where do I start?
Given that you already have a Samba server, setting up LEAF so that it
can act as a print server should be doable, since you don't need Samba
on the LEAF system to do it.
However, a remote XTerminal would be more difficult. It's likely NOT
impossible, just not done. I'd like to work towards that direction;
microwindows would likely not work as it is an alternative to X, not a
tinyX (as comes with XFree86). Maybe I'll be able to compile tinyX to
work.... don't know when, though - not in a big hurry...
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