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Over the past couple of months, I have been involved with migrating remote NetWare servers to Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES2) Linux. During this time, there are some lessons that have been learned that hopefully this article will be able to help you, the reader, perform your own migrations more smoothly and avoid some of the pitfalls we encountered.

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PHP Script which creates a web page of iPrint Servers.
It's designed for larger iPrint implementations with buildings at multiple sites. It presents a list of all print servers against site name, ordered in various ways, including the nearest server by ip address.

Sometimes the novell-ipsmd service that runs all of the different print jobs dies, but not in a way that the built-in watchdog can detect and restart the service. This script will check against the http://servername/ipp/printer page and see if it exists.

This tip from jtalbot-jones explains how to set a default network printer in a Citrix environment.

If you're not familiar with iPrint, it is one of the nicest end-user technologies I think Novell develops. On Linux I find the technology even more appealing.... no rebooting, no restarting applications to use printers, nothing strange like that. With that said iPrint wasn't developed originally for a 64-bit platform, and wasn't developed for Linux first. That it works so well just makes me that much more pleased.