Hi Folks, I'm part of a Novell department that is working on moving from Novell NDPS printing to Samba printing. I have been told that the Samba environment will have to be clustered to assure the same level of redundancy for printing. Does anyone have any pointers? Whether actual experience in this or a location of good documentation of the clustering process? Thanks for any assistance, Bill Morris Bill Morris (bill_morris at ncsu.edu) Systems & Hosted Systems North Carolina State University
Hi Bill, I am using clustered samba printing for a couple of years and it works fine, this is my setup: 3 sun server with sun cluster, let's call them samba1 samba2 and samba3 are individually joined to the windows domain using the hostnames samba1/2/3. Through the sun cluster they use together a shared address called 'printserver' with the 'bind interface only' option set to the shared hostname I have a loadbalanced samba setup for printing. To make sure all server use the same config I have 'ntforms.tdb', 'printers.tdb' and 'ntdrivers.tdb' on a shared global storage, linked via symlink into the three local samba/var/locks dirs. The 'samba printcap' is shared globally as well as the 'drivers' dir of cause. One thing about this construction is that samba1/2/3 still and always publish the printers over ther local ip adress though they will not accept a connection over these adresses. You need a firewall to get rid of this or unconfigure those printer in the AD. For some reason I have a cron restart running every morning, this is nice to get rid of old processes and connections and to have a fresh start from the ground for all three nodes... Hope this helps, don't hesitate to write me e-mail if you have further questions, well and maybe I got it all wrong and there is a much more clever idea about clustered printing, love to hear something about it then ;) cheers christoph On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Bill Morris wrote:> Hi Folks, > > I'm part of a Novell department that is working on > moving from Novell NDPS printing to Samba printing. > > I have been told that the Samba environment will > have to be clustered to assure the same level of > redundancy for printing. > > Does anyone have any pointers? Whether actual > experience in this or a location of good > documentation of the clustering process? > > Thanks for any assistance, > Bill Morris > > Bill Morris (bill_morris at ncsu.edu) > Systems & Hosted Systems > North Carolina State University > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >best regards ~christoph -- /* Christoph Beyer | Office: Building 2b / 23 *\ * DESY | Phone: 040-8998-2317 * * - IT - | Fax: 040-8998-4060 * \* 22603 Hamburg | http://www.desy.de */
Hi Bill, I am using clustered samba printing for a couple of years and it works fine, this is my setup: 3 sun server with sun cluster, let's call them samba1 samba2 and samba3 are individually joined to the windows domain using the hostnames samba1/2/3. Through the sun cluster they use together a shared address called 'printserver' with the 'bind interface only' option set to the shared hostname I have a loadbalanced samba setup for printing. To make sure all server use the same config I have 'ntforms.tdb', 'printers.tdb' and 'ntdrivers.tdb' on a shared global storage, linked via symlink into the three local samba/var/locks dirs. The 'samba printcap' is shared globally as well as the 'drivers' dir of cause. One thing about this construction is that samba1/2/3 still and always publish the printers over ther local ip adress though they will not accept a connection over these adresses. You need a firewall to get rid of this or unconfigure those printer in the AD. For some reason I have a cron restart running every morning, this is nice to get rid of old processes and connections and to have a fresh start from the ground for all three nodes... Hope this helps, don't hesitate to write me e-mail if you have further questions, well and maybe I got it all wrong and there is a much more clever idea about clustered printing, love to hear something about it then ;) cheers christoph On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Bill Morris wrote:> Hi Folks, > > I'm part of a Novell department that is working on > moving from Novell NDPS printing to Samba printing. > > I have been told that the Samba environment will > have to be clustered to assure the same level of > redundancy for printing. > > Does anyone have any pointers? Whether actual > experience in this or a location of good > documentation of the clustering process? > > Thanks for any assistance, > Bill Morris > > Bill Morris (bill_morris at ncsu.edu) > Systems & Hosted Systems > North Carolina State University > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >best regards ~ christoph -- /* Christoph Beyer | Office: Building 2b / 23 *\ * DESY | Phone: 040-8998-2317 * * - IT - | Fax: 040-8998-4060 * \* 22603 Hamburg | http://www.desy.de */