Re: What do you think ?

Robert Frank (frank@ifi.unibas.ch)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:13:08 +0200

Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:13:08 +0200
From:	Robert Frank <frank@ifi.unibas.ch>
Subject: Re: What do you think ?
To:	samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au

<nofill> > On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm back working a few days on the spoolss pipe, and I'm to a point
> > where I want your opinion.
> >
> > Basically I need to store infos about printers, like the dpi, color or
> > not color, the default page size, etc
> >
> > So I have two choice, writing all of them in smb.conf (making between
> > 15 and 25 new entries) or making a small text file to hold all the
> > infos
>
> i can tell you what the answer would be here: put them in smb.conf.
> however, i recommend that you start all the parameters with the same
> word, even using three words for the parameter if necessary.

By all means!
Example: (for post script printers: ppd)
ppd dpi
ppd colour
ppd page size

> > Myself I would prefer storing those info in a real database like ldap
> > or netinfo
>
> we can do that, later, for all parameters.

No problem at all. It's what I did and will continue doing.

-Robert

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