Duplicating CUPS Printer installation

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Fri Oct 5 13:24:16 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> 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.

If you set a default printer on a CUPS server and have it publish its
printers, clients should already pick up that default printer as their
own defaults (see the "UseNetworkDefault" cupsd.conf option, which
defaults to "yes").

http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html?TOPIC=References&QUERY=#UseNetworkDefault

Tim.
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