Duplicating CUPS Printer installation

[Tony Molloy]

On Friday 05 October 2007 15:26, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Tony Molloy wrote:
> > 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
>
>     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?
>

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.

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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