hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (08/03/89)
We have a need at Indiana University to implement a TCP/IP-based
network printing system for our statewide network. Such printing
services must be made available to a mixed and wide variety of
vendor's machines and operating systems (with the common denominator
being, again, TCP/IP). Included in this mix are VAXes and MicroVAXes
running VMS (with Wollongong's product), ULTRIX, and Berkely 4.3;
IBM mainframes; Sun, NeXT, and Apollo workstations; and a few others
to boot. (Support for PC's and Mac's would be nice too...)
We know about the LPR capabilities under most UNIX implementations
(and coming in the next release of Wollongong), and have been using
it in a few places on the net. But does the collective family
of LPR/LPD/LPQ/LPC/LPRM provide enough functionality *and* reliability
to satisfy most users (and implementors) for such a large base? And
is the maintenance of dozens or hundreds of local printcap files an
administrator's nightmare?
And if this seems to be the most viable solution, is anyone
aware of enhancements to this suite, possibly developed at
another university (or even available commercially), that we
might be interested in?
Any information at all would be appreciated and investigated.
Please respond via email. I will post a summary of solutions
if so requested. Thanks in advance.
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Larry Hughes, Senior Programmer
University Computing Services
Indiana University, Bloomington
Internet: hughes@jade.bacs.indiana.edu
hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
Bitnet : hughes@iubacs
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (08/03/89)
In article <44500002@silver> hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
... But does the collective family
of LPR/LPD/LPQ/LPC/LPRM provide enough functionality *and* reliability
to satisfy most users (and implementors) for such a large base?
*and* security? The problem we have here is charging users for the printing
that they do.
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(Russell.Nelson@f360.n260.z1.fidonet.org)|(BH01@GEnie.com :-)melanie@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (08/05/89)
the university of illinois has a distributed printing system. a central server resides on a vax 3500 and talks to satellite servers and/or clients on suns, vaxes, convexes (convi?) and an ibm 3081. this is all tcp-based. however, since the 3500 runs ultrix and decnet-ultrix, a decnet interface could be written in a straightforward fashion. accounting cards (well, theyre virtual...) are cut to the ibm-based accounting system by the central server (co). chargeback is quite accurate. i didnt write it, i just use it... contact charley kline sr research programmer and resident network guru kline@tuna.cso.uiuc.edu or sue greenberg charley's boss sue@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu