also sprach Kevin Buhr <buhr@telus.net> [2003.02.17.1938 +0100]: > Let me add that, in the past, I've had nothing but trouble using HP's > JetDirect... erm... directly. They've probably improved things since > I last had to deal with it, but their old network stack couldn't > handle more than one connection at once so, if a job was printing, the > printer would just refuse new connections until it completed; > sometimes jobs would simply mysteriously get lost; the printer would > just get wedged as machines trying to print jobs fought for its > attention; and on and on. This is pretty much what we are perceiving. I allow myself no further statement on the capabilities and brains of the responsible people. > The solution was (and is) to designate one machine as the spooler for > that printer and have all the other machines send the jobs through it. > This is straightforward to set up using LPRng, and it has the added > bonus that you can install and configure all sorts of fancy printer > filtering stuff on just the one, spooling, machine and have all the > clients take instant advantage of it. (Samba can be used to provide > shared printer service for any Windows clients that are lounging > around, too.) This is well worth setting up, in my opinion. Yes, I am planning to do something along those lines. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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