On Friday 05 October 2007 16:22, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> 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. > > Tony Molloy: > > 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. > > Have a look through the rest of the CUPS directory, you might need to > copy more than just that file over. > Copying the printers.conf and xxx.ppd files over seems to work. Well I've just done it for all the machines this morning ;-) Thanks. Tony. > You should probably find out what protocol your Windows printer server > uses, that might help with solutions. > > -- > (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.
