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

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu May 9 19:05:03 GMT 2002


On Wed, 8 May 2002, Van Sickler, Jim wrote:

> Jerry,
> 
>   Where can I find a list of the things Win2k
> tries to change?  It would help me figure out
> when I should enable/disable admin status for
> my account (especially printer admin).

It's driver specific.  As a general rule, on win2k clients
I would recommend non-admin connections.  Performance 
will be much faster (espcially for catty PCL drivers)
while you still get the per-user device mode settings
that Win2k supports.

>   I already know that if I = a printer admin, I
> can't view the properties of a printer on my
> PC, or the shared printer on the samba box,
> once I've installed a connection to that
> printer on my Win2k PC.
> 



cheers, jerry
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