Thanks to all who replied! Here is the original posting:
> After reading the recent postings about making printcap accessible via
> NIS (which I wanted to do :-) and find out one can't, I can live with.
> However, I would like to know if there is any problem NFS mounting
> multiple clients to the same spool directory for a remote printer.
>
> Our configuration consists of several SPARCs printing to a remote
> printer (talaris2) on a machine named saturn. Each of the client
> machines specify talaris2 as a remote printer and use a spool
> directory that looks like: /disk2/var/HOSTNAME/spool/talaris2.
>
> I would like to combine all of the spool directories for this printer
> into one directory (including that used by saturn). BTW: /disk2 is
> an NFS mounted filesystem.
>
> Is this possible? Did it even make any sense at all?
The official statement seems to be a resounding "no". You do not want
multiple lpd's (remote or local) pointing to the same spool directory.
They will begin to conflict.
Thanks to ken@nynexst.com for the rdist idea for managing "pseudo-NIS"
printcaps.
Thanks to horen@netcom.com for including a previous posting for managing
"pseudo-NIS" printcaps.
blyme@awadi.com.AU
ken@nynexst.com
horen@netcom.com
miker@il.us.swissbank.com
-- -kwh- hammond@kwhpc.chi.il.us
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