samba - Oct 2000 - Tamworth Borough Council - New Installation of SAMBA

Hello.......

I am looking to install SAMBA onto our Unix SUN Ultra Enterprise 2 server.

The 'uname -a' command (Operating System Version) outputs:

SunOS sun01 5.6 Generic_105181-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

The 'cc -V' command (Compiler version) displays:

cc: SC4.0 18 Oct 1995 C 4.0

We have numerous printers connected to the unix server through our
structured cabling (some run through print servers) and I want to confirm
that if I install the SAMBA software it will not affect the printers that
are already setup. Plus are there any other areas that I should/could be
concerned about. We already have a version of SAMBA installed on another
Unix server in the authority but I have no experience of the software
myself.

Thanks
Martin Marchant
IT Projects Assistant - 01827 709418

Tamworth Borough Council
Marmion House
Lichfield Street
Tamworth
Staffordshire
B79 7BZ

"Marchant, Martin" wrote:
> 
> We have numerous printers connected to the unix server through our
> structured cabling (some run through print servers) and I want to confirm
> that if I install the SAMBA software it will not affect the printers that
> are already setup. 
Shouldn't be a problem. Samba doesn't really get involved with printing
at all - the windows print support amounts only to understanding print
requests sent by clients, and forwarding them to the underlying lpr
software on your box.
> Plus are there any other areas that I should/could be
> concerned about. We already have a version of SAMBA installed on another
> Unix server in the authority but I have no experience of the software
> myself.
Nothing major that springs to mind. A lot depends on what you want to
use it for. You're probably best instaliing it and coming back to  the
list with specifics problems, if you have any...

HTH,

Mike.