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SHARING PRINTERS IN LANMAN

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From: Abdenacer Moussaoui
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 19:39
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LANMAN allows one to create many print queues and then make them point
to pool of printers.  This indeed permits the LANMAN spooler to
accomplish complex scheduling over to available print ports and choose
which printer to print on.  This is great, since it allows one to
service a broken printer while the queues are still being served by
other print devices.  However there seems to be a limitation in that
this pool of printers must consist of printer(s) attached to the same
server, and hence this pool CANNOT span multiple servers.

In other words if a pool consisted of a single printer on server ONE
then the queues on server ONE are cannot be made (or copied) to print
on server TWO printer(s).  Such queues will be STARVED from using an
available remote printer, since in order to print on a remote printer
one has to queue explicitly queue on that server's shared queue(s).

This is not what I expected. Any corrections or comments?

Thank you.
--Abdenacer 	(nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.COM)
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From: nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui)
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Subject: SHARING PRINTERS IN LANMAN
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Date: 13 Nov 89 19:39:34 GMT
Organization: HP McMinville Division
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