Duplicating Printers
Scenario:
School where I work has approx. 120 Panther clients being served by a new Intel Xserve running Tiger server 10.4.11. All clients are running 10.3.9. Everything is fully updated.
What I found is that if I manage the printing prefs via a machine list and only enter one printer for the pref, things continue to work properly. Users can save to their home dir. and print without issue. However, if I add a second printer (colorlaser for special jobs) and set the first printer entered (bw laser) as the default for the machine list... then things go haywire.
What I also am noticing is that when users try to send a print command, the printer list has many, many, many duplicates of the same printer for the users to scroll through in order to select a printer. They are all the same, but this sends them to the infamous SPINNING WHEEL OF DEATH!
All clients used to be served by a Panther server and we didn't have any of these issues. I am being told that this can work with Tiger server serving Panther clients. Just need help tracing the issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
Mr. T.
School where I work has approx. 120 Panther clients being served by a new Intel Xserve running Tiger server 10.4.11. All clients are running 10.3.9. Everything is fully updated.
What I found is that if I manage the printing prefs via a machine list and only enter one printer for the pref, things continue to work properly. Users can save to their home dir. and print without issue. However, if I add a second printer (colorlaser for special jobs) and set the first printer entered (bw laser) as the default for the machine list... then things go haywire.
What I also am noticing is that when users try to send a print command, the printer list has many, many, many duplicates of the same printer for the users to scroll through in order to select a printer. They are all the same, but this sends them to the infamous SPINNING WHEEL OF DEATH!
All clients used to be served by a Panther server and we didn't have any of these issues. I am being told that this can work with Tiger server serving Panther clients. Just need help tracing the issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
Mr. T.
Comments
Is printer sharing enabled on all clients? If so, they might be receiving the printer and then sharing it themselves, causing a "Printer @ Client 1", "Printer @ Client 2", "Printer @ Client 3" situation. They don't need printer sharing enabled to receive a printer, only to serve it, so try disabling that.
Karelia,
Thanks for the post!
I checked several clients in my lab and printer sharing has already been disabled. All clients in lab were formatted using the same "image" with NetRestore Helper so I am fairly confident that all clients are identical. It has also NOT been activated via WG Manager (I don't even see that as an option anywhere in WG Manager).
Any other ideas out there?