On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Miguel Medalha <miguelmeda...@sapo.pt> wrote: > >> I'd like to know the advantages out there in the field, using CUPS to >> print >> from the PDC. To me it sounds like just adding another single point of >> failure in the network, perhaps I am being blinded by windows printing >> issues to see the advantage in running all the prints via a PDC box? > > Centralized management of printers? Print job accounting? Network printing > to printers without a network interface? > These examples can be important in some environments.
In particular, the ability for an admin to lock the printing to a single server, or pair of servers, on a dedicated VLAN and provide a single point of *management* for print queues. There's nothing like having to find the idiot who's been sending their 300 page print jobs to the wrong printer, and resent it 10 times because it kept not coming out, and get the jobs killed from their laptop. And no, they won't accept the bill for $1/page because it's the color printer: it's IT's problem to make this not happen, even when it's the same idiot who won't permit IT to *label the printers visibly* because it detracts from the ambience of the office used for presentations. Been there, had some idiot printing dozens of resumes for handing out to a poster printer. We got suspicious and pulled the plug on the printer when we heard it churning that long. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba