Duplicating CUPS Printer installation

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Fri Oct 5 14:05:27 UTC 2007


On Friday 05 October 2007 14:22, Tim wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > It's not as simple as copying the /etc/cups/printers.conf file to each
> > machine.
>
> Are you serving one printer out to all of those computers?  If so, you
> shouldn't have to configure anything on them, they'll find the printer
> being served to them, and use it.  So long as you configure the server
> to allow access (might need both SELinux and firewall tweaking on the
> server, I can't remember).
>

No, the printer(s) are on a windows boxen sigh!!! shared between all the 
machines in a lab. It's a commercial printer control solution for dual boot 
machines.

So what I need to do is just set up the queues on each machine to send the job 
to the windows server.

SELinux and firewall are Ok as I have it working on one box using 
system-config-printer.

> On the other hand, if you were setting up clone machines which all had
> their own printers, the exact same models, then I would expect that
> copying the customised CUPS files on one machine to the others would do
> the trick.
>

I'll try this. I just copied the printers.conf file to a second machine ans 
restarted cups. While that worked for most printing ( eg. firefox, 
openoffice ) it didn't work for some lpr jobs of simple text files. I got the 
dreaded stepping effect.

Tony
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>  important to the thread.)
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