[K12OSN] Printing to spesfic printers only

george kocke webmaster at vol.org
Wed Oct 4 13:28:27 UTC 2006


jconlon1 at elp.rr.com wrote:

> We have a large server that runs a lab and several 4-6 terminal groups
> in some classrooms.  Some classrooms have one terminal being used as a
> Jet Direct device.  Is ther a way to set things up so that a classroom
> group will default to the jet directed printer only?  If there is How do
> I do it?

I do it based on the name of the terminal which may be found in the 
LTSP_HOSTNAME environment variable. See the scripts for details.

http://www.vol.org/vol/school/freesoftware/ltsp/printers/printers.ltsp
http://www.vol.org/vol/school/freesoftware/ltsp/printers/whatprinter.txt
http://www.vol.org/vol/school/freesoftware/ltsp/printers/setprinter.sh.txt

The ".txt" extension is just to get the webserver to display them properly.

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