Secure Global Desktop 4.40 Administration Guide > Printing > Do I Have to Use Distributed Printing?

Do I Have to Use Distributed Printing?

No. You can direct all your print jobs through the primary SGD server in the array.

Note This might not give users the best experience when printing. As all print jobs are routed through a single server, it might become overloaded. Also if the primary fails, printing services fail.

How you configure printing through only the primary SGD server depends on the application server type.

UNIX and Linux Application Servers

To set up printing through the primary SGD server, you must install a single printer queue on the application server, using the --ttahost option to specify the DNS name of the primary server. If you have installed printers for the other SGD servers in the array, you must uninstall them.

Windows application servers

To set up printing through only the primary server, you must edit the wcpwts.exp login script so that it sets the following for the ttatsc program:

• A -printcommand lp or a -printcommand lpr argument.
• An LPDEST environment variable which sets the name of the Secure Global Desktop printer on the primary Secure Global Desktop server (by default, this is tta_printer).

For example:

if [catch {exec -- echo $TTATSC1 | env LPDEST=tta_printer $ProtocolCmd "-stdin" "-printcommand" "lp"

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