Highly Available Print Servers

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 09), Timothy Radigan said:
> Is there a way to have a highly available print server using FreeBSD? 
> I've looked into SAMBA, but it doesn't look like it supports a form
> of clustering SAMBA servers at this time.
> 
> Pretty much what I need is to "cluster" some print servers so that
> all printers are available even if a server goes down.  I have
> Windows clients so I would need to have some form of connectivity for
> the Windows clients.

Just use something that can create a clustered IP like heartbeat, and
have your windows machines print to that IP.  If you are queueing print
jobs on the print server itself, you will want to also have shared
storage so if server A dies, server B can mount the spool volume and
continue servicing the queued jobs.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com