> Of course, knowing the cause does not solve your problem which is that > you want the paper to stop being wasted. The question is "who is going > to research a solution and implement it?" I suspect you want that to > be me. :-) That is fine but I'm at the point where I want to be paid > for my efforts.
Unfortunalely, even if the fault are buggy print servers (and with all the printing appliances, there WILL be buggy print servers), the blame of the paper wastage will be on OpenAFS as the printer server alone "works". My experience with printer vendors to fix problems is not that encouraging either. If I just look at KTH, this would be enough for the main Windows admin of KTH to ban the deployment of that version of OpenAFS. Would he be unhappy about it? Probably not. Would some users be unhappy? Probably. Would it be one less in the OpenAFS on Windows counter? Definitely. So yes, I think that someone has to be from OpenAFS but not necessarily Jeff. I think it is high prio because paper waste annoys the hell out of people. > * Request that an "existing" file be opened on the device > > \\server\device-name\_._AFS_IOCTL_._ I don't know much about windoes, but if \\server\device-name\ offers printing services, that should be able to be determined without printing anything? And then the AFS Context handler could leave it alone? Ok, that would be one more probe, but probably worth it. Harald. PS: At home I have a really old (but good) inherited HP laser writer and I think I have seen smileys printed from time to time. Probably something on the Internet that probes something. I have no OpenAFS 1.7.x running at home at all. But I can live with 1 wasted paper/month, so far it has no been over my "I care" level. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
