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Print Server

  • 15-03-2000 12:04pm
    #1
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭


    Lads,
    This might be a stupid question but...
    What OS makes for the best print server and what way is it best configured? Print server will have about 100+ users at peak times.

    Thanks,

    Jimmy...


Comments

  • #2
    Canaboid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭Canaboid


    How many printers ? NT is nice and easy.


  • #3
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    yeah.
    NT is nice an easy with that amount of people


  • #4
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    Theres about 30 printers hanging off this server.

    Jimmy...


  • #5
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    should still be fine....


  • #6
    Gamblor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Gamblor


    Sounds ok to me !!!!!
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  • #7
    amp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Nt is easier allright. Novell 4.x is harder but more reliable and faster. Maybe that's changed with win2k but hey that won't be a real o/s until the 2nd/3rd service pack wink.gif
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  • #8
    Canaboid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭Canaboid


    As long as you've got a decent spec'ed server and it ain't doing a load of other stuff as well you'll have no probs.
    One of our NT boxes in london has 148 printers on it.


  • #9
    LoLth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    don't know too much about NT, but Novell is pretty good. You have to watch the user connection limits though, we ahd a bit of a panic because those little ****wits in Cardiff can't figure out how to log off a PC and put nearly 200 connection to the server (plonkers). The Server decided to 'trim' the connections by bypassing parts of the login script, most annoyingly, the capture commands for the print servers.

    Still, if you don't have a company of complete morons affecting you, I reckon Novell is the best way to go. Easy to troubleshoot and designed quite niftily.


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