[CentOS] HP laptops with CentOS 7?

Tue Nov 7 13:24:17 UTC 2017
Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>

> -----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.

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//Sorin