Thread: what manages the print queue?
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Old 03-07-2008, 22:36   #1
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what manages the print queue?
I find myself with another little detail that puzzles me.
Take a hypothetical scenario where you have a fileserver serving several workgroup PCs. You have a network printer installed to this fileserver as shared so it's accessible to all the workgroup.

In a situation where more than one workstation is sending to that printer then print jobs will be queued.

My question is where is that queue managed. Is it controlled by the spool service on the fileserver or by the actual print server in the printer?
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