From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 18:51:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C600616A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:51:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749FA43D55 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:51:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j29Ipggf034732; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:51:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:51:42 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Timothy Radigan Message-ID: <20050309185142.GA9663@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050309184700.16DCE43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050309184700.16DCE43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Highly Available Print Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:51:45 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 09), Timothy Radigan said: > Is there a way to have a highly available print server using FreeBSD? > I've looked into SAMBA, but it doesn't look like it supports a form > of clustering SAMBA servers at this time. > > Pretty much what I need is to "cluster" some print servers so that > all printers are available even if a server goes down. I have > Windows clients so I would need to have some form of connectivity for > the Windows clients. Just use something that can create a clustered IP like heartbeat, and have your windows machines print to that IP. If you are queueing print jobs on the print server itself, you will want to also have shared storage so if server A dies, server B can mount the spool volume and continue servicing the queued jobs. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com