Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Disapearing print jobs
From: Brian Eric Bothwell (brbothwe@cs.indiana.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 02 1998 - 14:02:55 EST
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Robert O'Kane wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've seen a simmilar problem with a pap-spooler(RIP) running
> on an NT box. When 2 (or more) apple users tried to send to the
> spooler at the same time, the NT box decided to do random things
> including dropping jobs / mixing jobs together / crashing NT!!
>
> We 'fixed' it by having all the apple users send to a linux
> server and then having the Linux box spool the jobs to the NT
> one at a time. With PAP this is easy with the ofwpap (?) link/hack.
>
> Ofcouse we are spooling to the NT server using pap. I havent used
> samba for printing but maybe this idea helps.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Robert O'Kane
I think this must be the problem. I haven't tried the PAP hack yet, but
we did set up another Linux box running Netatalk, and hooked the HP 6MP
directly to it, and all the print jobs worked fine. (I would have hooked
the printer up to the main Linux box long ago, but the parallel port is
broken.
I guess the moral of this story is to avoid using NT I can help it! :)
thanx,
-brian
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