Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 22:39:37 -0400 From: Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Any opinions on CUPS or LPRng? Message-ID: <1225170000.990412777@sprig.tougas.net>
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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
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