Re: network print server
hi ya michael
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Michael West wrote:
> I did not mean that I am having trouble configuring samba/lpd. I
> enjoy configuring printcap files myself, and like to make physical
> printer appear as as many logical printers as possible.
yupp... ( or network printers ?? )
> But my "mucking around" included activities which take the system
> down. Sometimes by linux box is unbootable because I am
> experimenting with Grub and Lilo, sometimes I have runaway
you should always have a boot floopy, bootable cdrom, etc.etc.. :-)
> processes making things hang, sometimes lpd itself hangs and has to
> be restarted. And, of course, I occasionally update or reconfigure
yes... some runaway process are bugs... others are "user bugs"
and thats the fun/annoyances of playing with the box... to hopefully
make it better
> my kernel or add hardware. Many of these issues will be resolved
> when I finally get VMware. All of these events together happen
i will never/i prefer NOT to see any vmware anywhere on my entworks..
- had enough crashes of it erasing/destroying linux boxes...
- donno if it was the users doing whacky stuff or vmware itself
( was a year-n-half ago )
- if one needs windoze... put it on a different drive .. :-)
and their home dir is on a linux home server... problem solved...
> rarely, but still my wife is unsure what will happen when she
> clicks her printer icon.
if the network/machines are working right.. it will always print
unlike windoze world which needs rebooting...
> It is a poor architecture which has a production system dependent on
> a development system ( funny, I have this issue at work as well. )
and you can have fun at both places... one place paying youto have fun
and other place will nagg ya if it didnt work
c ya
alvin
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