On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 03:09, Mark Weaver wrote: > Lanman, > > Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not > being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration > the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack > there of for the Linux printserver, but the native support when > comparing the Linux server to the Novell server, at least for the > present is astonishingly different. > > That being said, all things being equal, if I had to bet my paycheck on > the print server I'd have to use the Novell server. Two reasons: > 1. I personally don't yet feel I have enough experience with serving > printers on a Linux platform. I have/am working with both > 2. I've experienced day-to-day dependability of the Novell print > server in it's native environment. > > This does make me curious though. Do you know if there is a way to > server printers from a Linux machine apart from doing it with Samba? > > Mark >
As IP based printers. Just like on any other UNIX/*NIX. UNIX shares it's printers with anyone on the network as default. Just a matter of setting them up properly in the first place. -- Sun Dec 8 06:25:00 EST 2002 6:25am up 8:23, 3 users, load average: 0.41, 0.24, 0.31 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn An air of FRENCH FRIES permeates my nostrils!!
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