[THIN] Re: printer management
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:30:36 +0100
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> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Fowler
> Sent: 06 May 2004 18:23
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] printer management
>
> We have 300 network printers and 3 XPa Farm servers. We will soon be
> migrating these printers to queues on Windows servers from
> Novell. We want
> to try and keep the users from having to scroll through a
> list of printers
> to get to the one(s) they wish to print to. Does anyone know
> of a way to
> partition them out?
The difficulty with any of this isn't actually "partitioning" lists of
printers.
It's actually defining a rationale or logic you can use and implement
that will facilitate this.
If you have such a rationale already, then you are half there.
> Do any of the 3rd party print management
> solutions help
> with this? Do any of them handle security? Do any of them
> propagate to
> other farm servers for you?
>
> Thanks for the insight.
As an example, when I implemented printer mapping leveraging Active
Directory, and print queues on MSCS clusters, I used the structure of
Active Directory, and used the computer object that the user was
actually logging into, in order to map the appropriate printers.
So that if a user sits at a PC on a certain floor, they get printers
local to that PC, ad infinitum - rather than the more traditional NT
model of using group memberships that define printers to be mapped. I
disliked that old model, because it meant hard-coding the details in
login scripts, rather than actually having the directory be the source
of this information.
Neil
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