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Network Printing

By Matthew Gast, Todd Radermacher
First Edition October 2000
Pages: 304
ISBN 10: 0-596-00038-3 | ISBN 13: 9780596000387

Book description

Network Printing shows you how to set up a network printing architecture that supports all kinds of clients, using Linux machines as print servers. It covers the standard Unix print servers on BSD and System V, LPRng (the next generation Berkeley spooling system), Samba printing services, and using LDAP as a configuration repository for printers.
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On today's networks it's common to have users running Windows, Apple, Novell, and many versions of Unix. Each operating system has its own printing facility and there is little or nothing in common between them--there is no single system for print spooling. Yet all users want to be able to print, and most of the time they have to share the same printers. The network administrator has to solve this problem as efficiently as possible. O'Reilly's Network Printing shows network administrators a way out of this problem. It details how to set up a network printing system that's based on Linux, but can handle printing from Windows, Novell, Apple, and any version of Unix. To this end, it offers thorough discussions of the Unix printing facility (both LPR and LPRng); Samba's printer sharing; Netatalk, a free implementation of the AppleTalk protocol; and ncpfs, a Linux implementation of the Netware protocols. The book also shows how to get printers to boot correctly on a network, using solutions like bootp and DHCP; how to manage printers remotely using SNMP; and how to set up a network-wide printer configuration repository with LDAP.

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"Printing is a critical service in all computer networks. Just have a printer fail to properly function, or begin to produce low-quality output and see how fast the IS Help Desk phone lights up. With the current level of network sophistication, this means networked workstation users have the ability to send a file to nearly any printer that has been joined to the network...Even the most skilled network administrators can easily be swamped if constrained by poor network scalability. To their rescue comes this super book that will help network administrators build scalable print servers."
--Dale Farris, Golden Triangle PC Club February 2003

"This book is a master class in printer management. This is an invaluable book for anyone who is concerned with network printer administration, it is well written and illustrated with plenty of examples." -- Ping (HP/Works Newsletter), June 2001

"Paperless office, paperless schmoffice: if you can't get your document to look right on paper, you might as well not waste time creating it at all. For administrators, printing across a local area network (LAN) was hard enough when everyone was running the same operating system. Now, with at least three widespread versions of Windows, several Mac OS flavors, and Linux servers making inroads all the time, printing can be hairier than ever. Network Printing aims to clarify the mechanisms by which various operating systems--particularly Unix variants--speak to one another about printing matters- this book meets its goal." --David Wall, amazon.com

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