On 5/19/05, James Wright wrote:

Krisnanto wrote:

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Hi Masters,

We just migrate our frontend users from Windows to Linux using SuSE 9.0 Temporarily, we use Linux (Red Hat 9.0 Professional) as our Print Server. Now we want to use W2K as our print server, because we have so many problem using Linux as Print Server (hang, slow response time,etc).Will this solve our printing problem ? and how can we possibly do this ? please explain step by step technique.

Thank you, i am looking forward to your reply.

Kris

Why not move the Red Hat to Suse too? If you feel you must use W2k, it is fairly straight forward. Install and share your printer(s) on W2K. On the Suse boxes add them as TCP/IP printers in Yast. Have you taken the time to see why the RH9 is slow and hangs? There maybe something to fix that would take less time than setting up W2K.

- James W.

Agreed, try to find out why you have problems. I've got a cost recovery solution that only runs on Windows and I get print problems (many of what you mention). About 99 percent of the time it's the document and/or the user, not the print server, usually postscript mismatch problems within the document. Going to a Windows print server won't solve these types of problems. Find the cause before you throw money at a problem. If it turns out the linux server is the problem, then so be it. But at least you'll know. John