Windows 2000 server with standard 5 user licenses.
Server has shared printer defined. Printer is actually on a Netgear print server, but I had all kinds of trouble trying to use that directly, so I thought to let the server handle it.
User A spools up 20 print jobs, they start to print.
User B sends one job, which prints, but User A's jobs stop with message about too many connections on the NTserver.
Unclick "Work offline", printing restarts, but then shortly stops again with same message.
License manager on server says 2 of 5 server licenses are in use. Once it said 3, dsi I thought maybe it needs more licenses.
As we're going to need more anyway, I ordered 5 more and then did the morally reprehensible act of telling the server that I actually had those licenses in hand when in fact they have only been ordered. Those licenses went in as per seat, but changed nothing. I then increased it to 10 per seat licenses (completely illegal but just to find out where the real problem is), still same problem.
Do I neeed a license for every job that is trying to spool? That seeems ridiculous, so what is the reason for this?
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
Server has shared printer defined. Printer is actually on a Netgear print server, but I had all kinds of trouble trying to use that directly, so I thought to let the server handle it.
User A spools up 20 print jobs, they start to print.
User B sends one job, which prints, but User A's jobs stop with message about too many connections on the NTserver.
Unclick "Work offline", printing restarts, but then shortly stops again with same message.
License manager on server says 2 of 5 server licenses are in use. Once it said 3, dsi I thought maybe it needs more licenses.
As we're going to need more anyway, I ordered 5 more and then did the morally reprehensible act of telling the server that I actually had those licenses in hand when in fact they have only been ordered. Those licenses went in as per seat, but changed nothing. I then increased it to 10 per seat licenses (completely illegal but just to find out where the real problem is), still same problem.
Do I neeed a license for every job that is trying to spool? That seeems ridiculous, so what is the reason for this?
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
