Yes! Thanks very much. Sorry. I didn't know about lpstat, I was trying to get that info out of lpoptions. Cheers! John <div>On 1/28/07, Jim McQuillan <<a href="mailto:jam@mcquil.com">jam@mcquil.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> john wrote: > Thanks Jim. I feel honored when I get a response from you in person, > pretty darn cool. careful... my head is already rather large :) > > I am using Ubuntu, but I am using LTSP 4.2 not MUkow. I am also using > cups (via the (gnome-cups-manager) to manage printers. The printer is > shared via smb:// Using your example below would I just do something > similar to: > > case `echo $DISPLAY | sed s/:.*$//` in > ws004) lpoptions -d smb://pathtoprinter;; > ws005) lpoptions -d smb://pathtootherprinter; > esac Well, doesn't cups assign a simple name to your printers, that you can use from the command line? Try: lpstat -l -a to get a list of printers that cups knows about. The name that shows as the first word of each line is the name you want to use in the lpoptions command. Jim. > > Thanks again for your help. > John > > On 1/28/07, *Jim McQuillan* <<a href="mailto:jam@mcquil.com">jam@mcquil.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jam@mcquil.com">jam@mcquil.com</a> >> > wrote: > > John, > > what you are trying to do, really isn't LTSP related at all. > > It just so happens that your users are connection with LTSP terminals, > and the printers are attached to LTSP terminals. Other than that, > it's > really a printer management issue on the server. > > You want one users default printer to be printerA, and another users > default printer to be printerB. > > Assuming that you've got your printers all configured in CUPS on the > server, you can use the 'lpoptions' command to set a default for > each user. > > Because a user may log into ws004 in the morning, and then log into > ws005 in the afternoon, you'll need to call lpoptions each time > the user > logs in. the /etc/profile script might be a good place to put this. > > The magic scripting you'll need to add is something like this: > > case `echo $DISPLAY | sed s/:.*$//` in > ws004) lpoptions -d printerA;; > ws005) lpoptions -d printerB;; > esac > > That way, each time a user logs in, it checks the current terminal > that > they are logging in with, and it sets their default printer > accordingly. > > If you are using Ubuntu's LTSP, you can't use the $DISPLAY, you'll > have > to use another env variable, like $SSH_CLIENT, which has a different > format. do: echo $SSH_CLIENT to see what the value looks like. > > Hope that helps, > Jim McQuillan > <a href="mailto:jam@Ltsp.org">jam@Ltsp.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jam@Ltsp.org">jam@Ltsp.org</a>> > > > john wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I want to use networked printing on my thin clients and specify > it per > > station ( e.g tell ws004 to print to networked printer A and > ws005 to > > print to networked printer B). > > > > My reading of lts.conf it appears to say that one can only do this > > with local printers. Can anyone help me figure out if what I want to > > do is possible? > > > > TIA! > > > > John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> > For more info see < <a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>