Duplicating CUPS Printer installation

[Karl Larsen]

Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Friday 05 October 2007 15:26, Karl Larsen wrote:
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>> Tony Molloy wrote:
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>>> On Friday 05 October 2007 14:26, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to set up a default CUPS printer on lots of machines in labs (
>>>>> several hundred ;-( ) running Fedora 7. I've got it configured and
>>>>> working on one machine. Is there any way to duplicate the settings from
>>>>> that machine so that I could install the printer on the other machines
>>>>> without running system-config-printer on each machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not as simple as copying the /etc/cups/printers.conf file to each
>>>>> machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Tony
>>>>>           
>>>> What's in /etc/cups/lpoptions?  If it says anything about the default
>>>> printer, that's the file you want to copy.
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>         
>>> No it's empty both on the working box and the second box.
>>>
>>> Tony
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>>     I'm lost. To share a single printer with X other computers is new to
>> me. For sure there must be a common data transport between the X
>> computers like a LAN. Now if the printer is going to stay in one place
>> then there is a kind of printer you just hook to the LAN. It has no
>> computer associated with it. But all computers are told to connect to
>> the printer via Internet.
>>
>>     My wife was given one of these, a HP and I never got it working with
>> a cable. I had to set up a LAN and hook it to that :-)
>>
>>     Is this your system Tony?
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>>     
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> Bit tricker than that. We use dual boot, well actually triple boot, machines 
> in our labs ( Linux, Windows2000 and WindowsXP ). So we need to be able to 
> print to the printer from all of those.
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> Then we need to charge the students for printing so we have a commercial print 
> solution installed on a windows server which looks after the various print 
> queues and the student credits. These queues are not automatically discovered 
> by cups. So I have to configure the print queues on each box and there are 
> lots of them, 350+.
>
> Tony
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>>  Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
>>  Linux User
>>  #450462   http://counter.li.org.
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Thanks Tony, sounds like a fun Computer Engineering Lab.



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