On Sunday 27 July 2008 03:54:44 pm Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 09:03 -0400, TechList wrote: > > Hello, > > I used to use printconf-tui -Xexport and printconf-tui -Ximport to copy > > printer configuration from one machine to another so that for machines on > > the same network I only have to set printer by hand once with > > system-config-printer. > > It seems that this feature no longer exists in Fedora 8. What is the way > > to copy printer configuration now ? should I just copy everything > > under /etc/cups ? > > > > Thanks for any help. > > TLP > > Are they all using the same printer. If they are and they are on the > same lan no copying is needed. All the machines will use the printer > configured with cupsd.conf on one of them. The client.conf makes that > happen. I don't understand that. Could you elaborate ? Right now there are two situation. One situation, is that I have 1 machine that acts as a print server with the printer physically connected to it (e.g via USB port). Say I have 5 other computers on the LAN, I have to configure printer on each of those 5 computer to use the same print server, right ? How do I avoid doing "system-config-printer" five times on those machine ? A second situation is that the printer sits on the network (e.g a printer with ethernet and HP Jet Direct protocol). If I have multiple computer that tries to use that printer, how do I set it up once and just copy the configuration among those computers ? On each of the case, I use to be able to just configure printer once with system-config-printer, then do something like "printconf-tui -Xexport > settings.xml", copy around the settings.xml file, and do "printconf-tui -Ximport < settings.xml" for the other computers. Thanks. TL -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list