Duplicating CUPS Printer installation

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Fri Oct 5 14:12:17 UTC 2007


On Friday 05 October 2007 14:26, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> 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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