On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:52:28PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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? I guess people have different points of view. I found the documentation essential and it explains both the web and CLI interfaces. > > >> 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? > Sure you say which one you want to use and can set a default but there is no printer configuration done on the client only on the server. So when you say: lpr -P foo file you print to foo through the server. -- ======================================================================= Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming. -- J. P. McEvoy ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
