cups configuration
François Patte
francois.patte at mi.parisdescartes.fr
Sun Jul 12 09:40:50 UTC 2009
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Le 12/07/2009 04:40, Tim a écrit :
> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 12:53 +0200, François Patte wrote:
>> I want to configure cups on laptops so that people could add any printer
>> they want, and choose the default printer they want too.
>
> What do you mean by adding a printer? One that's available over the
> network? (That should happen automatically.) One that's connected
> locally so they can use it on the same computer? (That should happen
> automatically.) One that's connected locally, so that others on the
> same network can use it as well? (To some degree, that happens
> automatically, if the default CUPS setup is to share out printers.) You
> really need to define what you mean (your comments further in your email
> are off on a yet another different tangent).
Adding a printer (local or network) was a mistake. Define the default
printer is the problem.
The situation: going somewhere with a laptop and plugging a printer
there. The printer is automatically added, OK. But it is not the default
printer automatically and if I don't want to print using
lpr/dvips/whatever -Pnewprinter
I want to define for sometimes this printer as the default one. In that
case the cups web interface (http://localhost:631) asks for the root
password.
I want to get rid of this. I did not know the: System>Hardware>Printer!
>
>> What is possible, using the web interface, is to allow anybody to remove
>> tasks, even if they are not the owner of the task.
>
> That's an option, being able to stop any task or just their own. Are
> you asking a question here?
No; I just wanted to say that was the only possible configurations I
have found, and maybe had missed something somewhere...
>
>> I want also that these permissions to add and choose the default
>> printer, will be be limited to the laptop only,
>
> Which it is. They only configure the local CUPS server.
>
>> I mean: if the laptop is connected to a network, I don't want that
>> these persmissions could be automatically extended to any other cups
>> server on the network.
>
> I don't know why you think configuring a server on one computer
> configures other servers on other computers.
This is not clear for me: I have a private lan with one server and a few
clients and if the httpd server is running on the server, a request
http://localhost:631 on a client, automatically switches to
http://server:631
And I don't know why and I don't know how to avoid this behaviour.
Thanks for attention.
F.P.
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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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