From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 19:39:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cache1.hck.carroll.com (cache1.hck.carroll.com [216.44.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA5737B43F for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 19:39:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from damien@carroll.com) Received: from sprig.tougas.net ([216.44.20.42] verified) by cache1.hck.carroll.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.4) with ESMTP id 3056108 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 May 2001 22:39:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 22:39:37 -0400 From: Damien Tougas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Any opinions on CUPS or LPRng? Message-ID: <1225170000.990412777@sprig.tougas.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am looking at installing an alternate printing system on our network, and was wondering if anyone had any experiences/suggestions regarding LPRng or CUPS. The basic BSD LPD is working well for us, but is becoming unmanageable on the client side. Every time we make printer changes on our print servers, I have to propagate the change to all the clients, creating a separate spool directory on each client for each printer it will access. I could do this through creative scripting, but if I can achieve this through installing a more scalable printing system, I would rather do that. Basically, it looks like my only two options are LPRng and CUPS. I tend to lean towards LPRng because I am quite familiar with the LPD system, but I am open to CUPS if it is a better solution. Is there anyone out there with experience who can comment on either one of these packages? I am mostly concerned with any issues regarding stability and reliability, but any experiences positive or negative are welcome. --- Damien Tougas Systems Administrator Carroll-Net, Inc. http://www.carroll.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message