Hello Shaw.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
El 30/10/08 07:02, Shaw Tong Tan escribió:
5. One printing downside is CUPS printer do not tolerate long downtime, Example: let say remote client printed some pages in application but failed to put papers in the printer, and nobody care to fix it. After some failed attempts, CUPS daemon noted the problematic status and stop the printer. When remote user later attempt to print again, the printing will have problem because the printer has been stopped on the CUPS side. Admin basically have to access CUPS page to clear jobs and restart the printer. A potential hassle for remote office with a lot of novice users and no onsite IT support, complaining about random failed printing.
There is an option for every printer in the CUPS administration webpage
that allows to select what to do when print jobs fail, I don't know why
but the default is "stop-printer", you may change it to "abort-job" or
"retry-job", that should fix that problem.
B. WAN considerations
1. Having WAN clients add layers of complication due to the security protection issue. This is also why I 2nd guessing on opening SSH port facing the Internet.
2. If support spending is allowed, I would honestly prefer using a vendor-supplied low-cost VPN solution and let the vendor deal with all the complication. Alternative open solutions (IPCOP/M0N0Wall) available but the VPN reading and related config issues are too numerous for me to address in a short timeframe. I may revisit them in future.
So, you are not comfortable with the VPN setup you made?
Well, maybe you can try FreeNX or NXServer from NoMachine, they are SSH
based, easy to setup on the clients. I am using FreeNX with printing
with DOSEmu and OpenOffice, speed is very good.
Hope this helps!!! Bye.
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