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Bug#791995: debian-edu-config: should provide /etc/cups/client.conf to fix network printing on clients (was: debian-edu: task desktop-other should contain libdns-mdns as a Depends to fix printer setup on clients)

Hi Wolfgang,

On  Mi 14 Okt 2015 18:17:17 CEST, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 01:31:04PM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote:

On  Mo 13 Jul 2015 11:07:18 CEST, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
>On IRC sunweaver pointed out that the existence of /etc/cups/client.conf
>would break setting up locally attached printers (via locally running
>cups). While this is true in general, there's a way to have local
>printer(s) (attached to real workstations) configured centrally on
>tjener. To get this working install the package p910nd on the
>workstation and configure it, see man p910nd. (For a USB printer you
>would set P910ND_OPTS="-f /dev/usb/lp0" and P910ND_START=1 in
>/etc/default/p910nd.) Then you can set up this printer on tjener as
>AppSocket/HP Jetdirect printer using 'socket://<workstation-ip>:9100' as
>URI. For diskless workstations a similar app socket tool is available by
>default, see the jessie manual how to set up printers attached to LTSP
>clients.

The question now remains: shall we simply ship /etc/cups/client.conf as
package file in debian-edu-config or treat/create-if-not-there that file
with cfengine.


As the file only makes sense along with the instructions, it would IMO
be best to add these to a Printing Know How chapter of the manual and to
avoid shipping/creating the file.
I don't like creating that file from scratch either. We don't know with what we will conflict later.
However, deploying systems that cannot print via TJENER right away sounds a bit awkward, too, IMHO. 

The deeper question are...

Why doesn't CUPS browsing work out of the box?
Why does it require a BrowsePoll entry in cups-browsed.conf (at least it does here...)? 

Right?
Basically, if cups-browsed is installed, the local cupsd of a Debian Edu client should "find" the shared printers on the network. 

Maybe we should attempt at getting this fixed?

Mike


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