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

[john]

Thanks Jim. I feel honored when I get a response from you in person, pretty
darn cool.

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

Thanks again for your help.
John

On 1/28/07, Jim McQuillan <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
>
>
> 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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