[CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Tue, November 7, 2017 7:24 am, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark
>> Haney
>> Sent: den 7 november 2017 14:10
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?
>>
>> On 11/07/2017 01:41 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> >
>> > 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...
>> >
>> I've had no problems printing to AD connected print servers with Linux
>> in a decade.  Either with the Linux box (usually Fedora, but Ubuntu as
>> well) as part of the AD domain or not part of the domain.
>>
>> Generally all the printer issues with Windows print servers is the print
>> spool getting jacked up and having to be restarted.  It's better in
>> Server 2016, but still crap IMHO.
>
> We don't run anything on Server 2016, only have a Server 2012 left.
> Last I tried was with Server 2012, a year or so ago.

And at the end of the day it turns out all this printer server problem
discussion belongs to MS Windows admin list, not Linux or UNIX admin list.
So, why didn't you, guys use Linux server instead of Windows server for
printing? You paid with your trouble for poor decision. Windows IMHO can
not be allowed to serve anything. It is the only system I know of whose
vendor tell you it is unsafe to run without third party software
(antivirus).

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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