I serve about 50 printers via Samba. Here are my experiences -
LPRng - This backend I have found to be much stronger than CUPS, but I
didn't use it for any server side processing. All drivers had to be
installed from some other workstation. In my case, installing drivers
for all OS's would only
Could I get some opinions on which type of Samba based printing is
easier, CUPS or LPRNG, or just bybass Samba altogether. I'm looking at
the Printing HOWTO by Kurt Pfeifle (Printing Support in Samba 3.0) and
both look really complex. Anyone out there have any experience with
printing
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
Could I get some opinions on which type of Samba based printing is
easier, CUPS or LPRNG, or just bybass Samba altogether. I'm looking at
the Printing HOWTO by Kurt Pfeifle (Printing Support in Samba 3.0) and
both look really complex. Anyone out
On Thursday 06 November 2003 15:55, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
Could I get some opinions on which type of Samba based printing is
easier, CUPS or LPRNG, or just bybass Samba altogether.
Once you understand any of the systems none are all that difficult. With Samba
in the loop as a PDC it's like
Not only did it fix their issues, but it gives them a nice
web-based administration interface where they can delete jobs if one does
happen to get stuck. Setup was much easier than I thought it would be and
definitely easier than LPRng if you haven't done work with lpd before. We
were using HP
To be fair, I'm using Debian, so I used the .deb packages. They went in with
no hassle. You may have a hard time with it using a lesser distro. :-)
Ooooh, them's fighting words :)
I've been running Debian for about five years now but I do
install everything from source. FWIW the main problem
I've used LPRng for years, but recently we had one client that had printing
problems we just couldn't fix. We switched them over to CUPS and I was very
impressed. Not only did it fix their issues, but it gives them a nice
web-based administration interface where they can delete jobs if one does
Which is better to use on a large Samba print server only being used a print server
for Windows clients?
Is one more stable then the other? Why is quicker?
Thanks
Jeff
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