Our setup is similar to yours 10.4.2 server with 10.3.9 clients no
print server running. We have all brother printers that the clients
can use. Six that consist of (HL-1870n, HL-5170dn, HL-2700cn,
HL-6050dn). We tried to manage them by assigning them to the groups
of users that we had established. We had the same results that you
are experiencing. Every time a user would log in all the printers
that were assigned to them would populate the client computer. When
the user would log out the printers would not be deleted so
eventually we would have a large number of duplicate printers in the
printer setup. At one time there was as many as 185 printers in the
list. It affected log in times as well as printing problems. Log in
times went from 12 seconds to over a minute.
The way we are getting around this issue is that we set up the
printers on all the client computers that we want that computer to
use and then don't manage the printers from within WGM. The users get
a choice of where to print from the print dialog window so they can
choose where they want the document to print, but it is limited to
the printers setup on that particular machine. After we did this the
printing problem went away. Works well for our situation although it
is not an ideal way to manage printers.
In trying to setup the client computers with the printers I want them
to have I can't seem to find out what prefs or other files to push to
each machine so I don't have to go to each one and configure them
manually.
Jerry Goedhart
Tech Support
Orange City Christian School
Orange City, IA
On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Terri Barb wrote:
We are running 10.4.3 server with 10.3.9 clients - running Print
Server and have 15 HP printers configured on the server (1200,
1300n, 2200, 4100, 4200, 2500) and assigned through WGM by computer
lists. Every login on the client puts the assigned printer(s) into
the client's printer list. After 15 logins, there are 15
duplicates of each printer. When this list reaches 50+ printers,
printing comes to a crawl and eventually to a halt until I empty
the printer list on that client. I have a case with Apple, but so
far, they are stumped. Any ideas would be most appreciated as my
users are running out of patience. I have searched for computers
sharing printers and there are none - Thanks!
Terri Barb
Danbury Public Schools
Terri Barb
Tech Services
Danbury Public Schools
203-731-8279
203-948-5261-Mobile
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