[gentoo-server] Printserver for Windows Network wit Samba/CUPS

[gentoo-server] Printserver for Windows Network wit Samba/CUPS

[Witschel, Matthias, Infraserv-Hoechst/DE]

Hi everybody!

I have a question about the setup of a printserver using samba an cups. The goal is a central printserver for about 2000 users, managing something around 1500 Queues. Queues should be attached to clients without the need for local driver installation.

I have read the Gentoo howto for this and tested the procedure. Well it works fine but windows still wants to install a local printer driver. I remember reading about EMF support in ghostscript, so is there any way to configure samba to accept EMF data from the client (e.g. samba has to be configured to tell windows clients, that it can handle EMF)?

Any experiences or suggestions?

Matthias Witschel

Infraserv GmbH & Co. Höchst KG
Geschäftsfeld IT-Services

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Re: [gentoo-server] Printserver for Windows Network wit Samba/CUPS

[David H. Askew]

On Friday 19 August 2005 3:57 am, Witschel, Matthias, Infraserv-Hoechst/DE 
wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I have a question about the setup of a printserver using samba an cups. The
> goal is a central printserver for about 2000 users, managing something
> around 1500 Queues. Queues should be attached to clients without the need
> for local driver installation.
>

I am investigating a similar solution.  Does anyone know how to get around 
windows 2000's inability to handle more than a few hundred print queues? I've 
got an application I'm trying to load balance, but in order to do so I have 
to have every possible output destination ( printer ) defined on every 
windows server in the application cluster.   I'm gonna be offloading the 
printing to a linux print server, but it appears that windows can only handle 
so many print queues ....

... anyone ever dealt with a similar issue?

> I have read the Gentoo howto for this and tested the procedure. Well it
> works fine but windows still wants to install a local printer driver. I
> remember reading about EMF support in ghostscript, so is there any way to
> configure samba to accept EMF data from the client (e.g. samba has to be
> configured to tell windows clients, that it can handle EMF)?
>
> Any experiences or suggestions?
>
> Matthias Witschel
>
> Infraserv GmbH & Co. Höchst KG
> Geschäftsfeld IT-Services
>
> www.infraserv.com ++ www.industriepark-hoechst.com ++ www.ihr-nachbar.de
>
> > Auf diesen Messen finden Sie uns: www.infraserv.com/messetermine
> > <http://www.infraserv.com/messetermine>

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