Printserver Compatibility

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2 total messages Started by Christian Kurrer Wed, 02 Sep 1992 19:23

#915

Author: Christian Kurrer
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 19:23

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Page 13 of the "Network and System Administration" manual shows a table  
that lists the compatibilities for combining servers. According to this  
table, it is impossible for a NeXt to be a PrintServer and one of the  
following: "NetBoot" server, "home directory" server, "Mail" server, or  
"other file" server. What does this mean? What kind of machine, then, can  
be set up as a print server? Only a dedicated machine with no other  
responsabilities?

We have intermittently experienced intractable problems with printing,  
especially printer daemons that constantly crash. I wonder whether this  
might be due to the fact that our print server is our Mailserver, a home  
directory server, the Netboot server, and a server for "other files" at  
the same time.

Does anybody have any experience about what a PrintServer is really  
compatible with or what certainly won't work?

Any hint highly appreciated.

Christian Kurrer
kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu

Re: Printserver Compatibility

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Author: Irving_Wolfe
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 14:58

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Being a print-server is only incompatible with the other functions
in the sense that response may seem excessively sluggish.  We have
run a machine that was print-server, mailhost, clone NetInfo
server, secondary NFS server, and home directory server for just a
few users, as well as news server, all at the same time.  The only
thing that didn't work well was the user whose machine it was, who
had excessively delayed response time at the console.

You are much better off not doing this, if you have enough machines
to distribute the load properly.
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