-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Valeri Galtsev Sent: den 6 november 2017 16:31 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?
Our department is slowly leaving all those ad hoc printer solutions
where
every senior or group have their own printer and are instead opting for
a
"Eduprint" solution. Any printer problems will soon be somebody else's problem.
Hm, I regret to hear you are outsourcing your IT tasks too...
Nah, I have plenty of other stuff to do.
I'm quite happy to leave all printing problems behind me. Printers seem to be a never-ending source of problems...
Even though "printing is the darkest page of IT book", if you set them up right, you will rarely have any problems. Namely:
- Configure all printer to not accept jobs (or talk to) any machines
except for your UNIX print server
- On print server make sure to use protocols to talk to printers that do
not time out and stop CUPS queue. E.g., jetdirect (port 9100) never will.
- On print server set some restrictions so to fend off those who
shouldn't print to your printers. Restricting in local firewall on print server machine access to print ports to local subnets of your Department is one of the measures.
When I first started at this job almost twenty years ago fresh out of IT-school, I had an idea to use a Windows print server as this was what I knew. I wasn't trusted with the *nix farm yet then. Over the years I have tried at least once a year to get our Linux-computers to talk to our AD-connected Windows Servers, but haven't quite made it yet. I've also tried to get the AD-connected Windows-clients to talk to a Linux print server to no avail. Granted it's been awhile now since I tried. Maybe I'll give it another go. Both the Windows and Linux OS:es have developed quite a bit the last ten years...
-- //Sorin