[Samba] How well does printing support scale in Samba 2.2.x ?

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 8 May 2002, Gunnar Gunnarsson wrote:

> Hi, I'm working on a printing project consolidating a bunch of NT
> machines with a Solaris printing machine. I'm concerned about the
> scalability if I increase the number of printers from say 20 too 300.
> How does it effect the response time for looking up and changing device
> setting etc.

2.2.4 scales the best out of all the 2.2.x releases.
Word of advice.  Administrative connections always take longer
since the windows NT/2k client tries to change things even 
when you don't  ask it to.









cheers, jerry
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