[cups.general] sharing network printer (socket or LPD) between CUPS and Solaris lpsched

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Feb 25 08:28:05 PST 2011


On Feb 25, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there some safe way to share a network printer (either on raw 9100 or LPD) between the CUPS daemon and the traditional Solaris lpsched?
> 
> I see that, for example, I can telnet two times to the same printer to port 515 (LPD) without getting a connection refused RST for the 2nd session, which let me think in unforseen results when two daemons send over a print job to the same printer.
> 
> Any ideas/comments on that? Thanks in advance

In general, allowing multiple spoolers to print to a single printer is OK, however you will have to accept that jobs may not come out in a predictable order and that one spooler can monopolize a printer.

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