Phil Schaffner wrote: >> The time has come to upgrade our thinking about printers. Since we are >> using cups system-config-printer needs to be put on the back shelf. > > Or at least made a lot more CUPS-friendly, as in not clobbering custom > configurations every time it is run. > >> Go to the CUPS web interface http://localhost:631 and use it to >> configure your printers. I must say, I have tried this, as well as system-config-printer (or rather Start=>System Settings=>Printing), and I can't decide which is worse. >> At the same time print pout the CUPS user and >> CUPS system administrators documentation and learn how to use the >> command line configuration tools of cups. I found this documentation completely useless. What do you mean by CLI tools? I thought the documentation advised you to use the web interface? >> Let me tell you one thing to convince you that this is the way to go. >> You want to have a client to print to a print server. How do you do >> it? You do nothing. Just print from the client and it finds the >> server. > > The down side of that convenience in our environment is that, unless > some tricks are played to limit the browse addresses, the user may be > confronted with a list of several hundred printers, many of which are at > unknown and distant locations (but then our network administrators are > working under a low-bidder contract and are suspected of being brain- > damaged). I don't understand either of you at this point. Surely if there are lots of printers on the system, you will have to say which one you want? But I didn't think one normally did this by browsing. If you are going to use the same printer most of the time, can't you just make it the default? CUPS is working perfectly for me at the moment on remote laptops, but this was only after explicitly editing /etc/cups.conf and /etc/cupsd.conf . Maybe I didn't need to? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
