Linux print server?

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link97381 · Post by **link97381** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 2:50 pm

I was wondering if it's possible to set up a linux box as a print server for a windows network to duplicate the current novell print server we have? Also does anyone know of an open source program to remotely administer windows computers? The program we currently us is called ZENworks by novell and you have to have Novells version of Netware installed and when you install that it turns a 300mhz into a giant paper weight cuz it uses too many damn resources. Thanks for any info.

Braempje · Post by **Braempje** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 3:30 pm

A print server should be relatively easy using CUPS and Samba.
I don't know how to do windows client management, but I'm interested too.

albrow · Post by **albrow** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:17 am

On the remote admin side I tend to suggest VNC - more specifically TightVNC. Although I believe ZenWorks does a little bit more than just desktop sharing (or am I wrong?) VNC's always been good in my books. It's GPL and is avaiable for Win32, DOS (!!), Mac OS, BSD and (of course) Linux.

Oh, and I'm going with the Samba and CUPS solution for the print server. There are already default settings in smb.conf to show you how to set the Samba-side up. Take a quick search around the forums for anything else to do with this.

Alex Brown

Petyr · Post by **Petyr** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 8:56 pm

One other thing you might wanna check out is Samba-TNG
for the windows client management, TNG is a project that is trying to implement all the Win2k PDC features. I havn't played with it personally so I can't really help you on the config end of it, but at the very least it's a very cool project ^^

Petyr

jonaswidarsson · Post by **jonaswidarsson** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 12:40 pm

Windows servers and xp professional have what is called "terminal server"
From windows computers, you access terminal servers with the program mstsc.exe (microsoft terminal server client).

I have administered remote windows boxes from linux mandrake some year ago and did that using a linux app called "rdesktop". linux admins windows through windows own protocol. It worked well...

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