[THIN] Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- From: Angela Smith <angela_smith9@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:30:11 +1000
Hi
Im looking at making changes to our existing farm as Printing is not currently
setup optimally. We run Windows 2003 Presentation Server 4 farm with a
centralised MS Windos 2003 Print Server. The Citrix farm and MS Print Server
are on the same network. All our clients are across the WAN on 1Mb frame relay
links. We have several sites that are 100% Citrix with Windows XP clients that
are setup with client network printers which are autocreated in Citrix. We use
Citrix universal drivers only (No third party HP drivers used).
Now my question is.... Am I better to use a centralised MS Print Server or
should I have a Print Server in each office? I want to minimise the amount of
traffic on the WAN as the links are small and often get saturated. Ive read
numerous documents and am confused now in relation to the best way to setup
printing. I want to minimise WAN traversal as much as possible and I don't
want documents spooling over the WAN. PDF documents can be very big and a
100MB spooled job will take hours to print over a 1MB link.
What do you suggest? Should I be using Indirect Printing? Should each site
have a MS Print Server? By the way, we do not have budget for THinPrint or
ScrewDrivers so I need to make do with Citrix functionality. Please help as I
am out of ideas and am close to removing Citrix all together...
Thanks
Angela
_________________________________________________________________
Never miss another e-mail with Hotmail on your mobile.
http://www.livelife.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=343869************************************************
For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or
set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link:
http://www.freelists.org/list/thin
NEW! Follow Thin List on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/thinlist
Thin List discussion is now available in blog format at:
http://thinmaillist.blogspot.com
HOT! Thinlist MOBILE Feed!
http://thinlist.net/mobile
Thinlist quick pick
http://thinlist.net
************************************************
- Follow-Ups:
- [THIN] Re: Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- From: Rick Mack
- References:
- [THIN] Re: Assistance requested...
- From: Chad Schneider (IT)
- [THIN] Re: Assistance requested...
- From: Chad Schneider (IT)
- [THIN] Re: Assistance requested...
- From: Jez
Other related posts:
- » [THIN] Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- » [THIN] Re: Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- » [THIN] Re: Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- » [THIN] Re: Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- » [THIN] Re: Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- » [THIN] Re: Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- [THIN] Re: Print Server / Citrix design question - urgent
- From: Rick Mack
- [THIN] Re: Assistance requested...
- From: Chad Schneider (IT)
- [THIN] Re: Assistance requested...
- From: Chad Schneider (IT)
- [THIN] Re: Assistance requested...
- From: Jez