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Cups slow when gateway down
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Greg May 6, 2010.

HP discontinued 170x External Jet Direct
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Graycat Feb 10, 2010.

Backup solutions other than tape
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jeff Hengesbach Oct 1, 2009.

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Greg replied to Greg's discussion 'Cups slow when gateway down'

I needed to setup BIND in order for it to work. Looks like it was the perfect storm with CUPS and SCO. After BIND was installed and running, they pulled the WAN cable and the printers did not pause. Greg

May 6, 2010

Ben Cotton replied to Greg's discussion 'Cups slow when gateway down'

Is resolv.conf configured to check files before DNS for hosts? If you use IP addresses instead of host names in CUPS configs, does that help the problem?

May 5, 2010

Cups slow when gateway down

I have a SCO UNIX box that is having a issue. When the internet is down, printing is very slow. I am running CUPS and the spoolers are based on the hostname in the local hosts file. I know this has to be some DNS issue. But what can I do to?

Discussion posted by Greg May 4, 2010

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Graycat replied to Greg's discussion 'HP discontinued 170x External Jet Direct'

For the very few cases where we need an older printer on the network, I use a print server like the ones offered by Netgear. I've found the bigger ones (ie: designed for multiple printers) to be much more reliable than the smaller "single…

Feb 10, 2010

HP discontinued 170x External Jet Direct

What is everyone else using for those older printers that need to be on the network?

Discussion posted by Greg Feb 9, 2010

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So HP has discontinued the 170x External Jet Direct. What is everyone else using for those older printers that need to be on the network?

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Jeff Hengesbach replied to Greg's discussion 'Backup solutions other than tape'

Greg - I'm in the same target area of space and will be switching to external hard drives in 2010. I looked at it from a alot of angles. Cloud / online is too bandwidth hungry and costly for my volumes and retentions. I don't use enough…

Oct 1, 2009

Adam Ruth replied to Greg's discussion 'Backup solutions other than tape'

I've switched over to a dual system. External drives which I rotate off site periodically and a cloud system using Rackspace Cloud Files. I wrote about it on my blog recently. Admin Arsenal Blog

Sep 29, 2009

Backup solutions other than tape

What are other people doing for backups these days? I am looking for a solution that is portable, small, and holds at least 500GB. Tapes are starting to wear too fast in dirty environment. Need something that can be taken off-site or stored in a vault when not in use.

Discussion posted by Greg Sep 29, 2009

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Greg replied to Danny's discussion 'can i connect Ultra VNC without STATIC IP ?'

Just sign up for a dynamic DNS service. I use DynamicDNS and I have a built-in client in my router. The router updates the dynamic IP address to the DynamicDNS server. So you pick a domain name that you want to associate to the server and you can…

May 11, 2009

Greg commented on Greg's photo

It's a HP DL380. The USB drive was purchased thru HP with ESXi pre-loaded.