On Friday 05 October 2007 14:22, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote: > > I need to set up a default CUPS printer on lots of machines in labs > > ( several hundred ;-( ) running Fedora 7. I've got it configured and > > working on one machine. Is there any way to duplicate the settings > > from that machine so that I could install the printer on the other > > machines without running system-config-printer on each machine. > > > > It's not as simple as copying the /etc/cups/printers.conf file to each > > machine. > > Are you serving one printer out to all of those computers? If so, you > shouldn't have to configure anything on them, they'll find the printer > being served to them, and use it. So long as you configure the server > to allow access (might need both SELinux and firewall tweaking on the > server, I can't remember). > No, the printer(s) are on a windows boxen sigh!!! shared between all the machines in a lab. It's a commercial printer control solution for dual boot machines. So what I need to do is just set up the queues on each machine to send the job to the windows server. SELinux and firewall are Ok as I have it working on one box using system-config-printer. > On the other hand, if you were setting up clone machines which all had > their own printers, the exact same models, then I would expect that > copying the customised CUPS files on one machine to the others would do > the trick. > I'll try this. I just copied the printers.conf file to a second machine ans restarted cups. While that worked for most printing ( eg. firefox, openoffice ) it didn't work for some lpr jobs of simple text files. I got the dreaded stepping effect. Tony > -- > (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists.
