[K12OSN] Re: LTSP: is it possible to specify networked printers per thin client?

[john]

Yes! Thanks very much. Sorry. I didn't know about lpstat, I was trying to
get that info out of lpoptions.

Cheers!

John

On 1/28/07, Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> john wrote:
> > Thanks Jim. I feel honored when I get a response from you in person,
> > pretty darn cool.
>
> careful... my head is already rather large :)
> >
> > I am using Ubuntu, but I am using LTSP 4.2 not MUkow. I am also using
> > cups (via the (gnome-cups-manager) to manage printers. The printer is
> > shared via smb://  Using your example below would I just do something
> > similar to:
> >
> > case `echo $DISPLAY | sed s/:.*$//` in
> >   ws004)   lpoptions -d smb://pathtoprinter;;
> >   ws005)   lpoptions -d smb://pathtootherprinter;
> > esac
>
> Well, doesn't cups assign a simple name to your printers, that you can
> use from the command line?
>
> Try:
>
>      lpstat -l -a
>
> to get a list of printers that cups knows about.  The name that shows as
> the first word of each line is the name you want to use in the lpoptions
> command.
>
> Jim.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks again for your help.
> > John
> >
> > On 1/28/07, *Jim McQuillan* <jam at mcquil.com <mailto:jam at mcquil.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     John,
> >
> >     what you are trying to do, really isn't LTSP related at all.
> >
> >     It just so happens that your users are connection with LTSP
> terminals,
> >     and the printers are attached to LTSP terminals.  Other than that,
> >     it's
> >     really a printer management issue on the server.
> >
> >     You want one users default printer to be printerA, and another users
> >     default printer to be printerB.
> >
> >     Assuming that you've got your printers all configured in CUPS on the
> >     server, you can use the 'lpoptions' command to set a default for
> >     each user.
> >
> >     Because a user may log into ws004 in the morning, and then log into
> >     ws005 in the afternoon, you'll need to call lpoptions each time
> >     the user
> >     logs in.  the /etc/profile script might be a good place to put this.
> >
> >     The magic scripting you'll need to add is something like this:
> >
> >     case `echo $DISPLAY | sed s/:.*$//` in
> >       ws004)   lpoptions -d printerA;;
> >       ws005)   lpoptions -d printerB;;
> >     esac
> >
> >     That way, each time a user logs in, it checks the current terminal
> >     that
> >     they are logging in with, and it sets their default printer
> >     accordingly.
> >
> >     If you are using Ubuntu's LTSP, you can't use the $DISPLAY, you'll
> >     have
> >     to use another env variable, like $SSH_CLIENT, which has a different
> >     format.  do:  echo $SSH_CLIENT to see what the value looks like.
> >
> >     Hope that helps,
> >     Jim McQuillan
> >     jam at Ltsp.org <mailto:jam at Ltsp.org>
> >
> >
> >     john wrote:
> >     > Hi all,
> >     >
> >     > I want to use networked printing on my thin clients and specify
> >     it per
> >     > station ( e.g tell ws004 to print to networked printer A and
> >     ws005 to
> >     > print to networked printer B).
> >     >
> >     > My reading of lts.conf it appears to say that one can only do this
> >     > with local printers. Can anyone help me figure out if what I want
> to
> >     > do is possible?
> >     >
> >     > TIA!
> >     >
> >     > John
> >
> >
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