nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (Abdenacer Moussaoui) (11/14/89)
LANMAN allows one to create many print queues and then make them point to pool of printers. This indeed permits the LANMAN spooler to accomplish complex scheduling over to available print ports and choose which printer to print on. This is great, since it allows one to service a broken printer while the queues are still being served by other print devices. However there seems to be a limitation in that this pool of printers must consist of printer(s) attached to the same server, and hence this pool CANNOT span multiple servers. In other words if a pool consisted of a single printer on server ONE then the queues on server ONE are cannot be made (or copied) to print on server TWO printer(s). Such queues will be STARVED from using an available remote printer, since in order to print on a remote printer one has to queue explicitly queue on that server's shared queue(s). This is not what I expected. Any corrections or comments? Thank you. --Abdenacer (nacer@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.COM)