Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:14:34 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 02:06 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:12:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know how to handle this _without_ root permissions?
>>>
>>> I see there is an 'lp' group and user.
>>
>> As per "man lpoptions":
>>
>> ***
>> FILES
>> ~/.cups/lpoptions - user defaults and instances created by non-root
>> users.
>> /etc/cups/lpoptions - system-wide defaults and instances created by the
>> root user.
>> ***
>>
>>
> It seems from the lpoptions man page that the files you cite above are
> created by the lpoptions command.
Mmm, no, I don't think so. Or at least I didn't get in that way.
What I understand from the man page is that those files need to be
manually created by the user or by root, not just by running the
command. I can be wrong, though.
> That is not so on my amd64 box. I
> have partitions for stable/testing/sid and new-testing. None of them
> have an /etc/cups/lpoptions file or any ~/.cups directories.
Mine neither :-). I think when someone sets the printer settings using
CUPS web interface, those values are stored somewhere, in another place.
> I have looked through the docs and I have yet to find any mention on
> what should be in the .cups/lpoptions files. I made .cups dirs for
> root and myself put the output of lpoptions in a lpoptions file. That
> does not help with my problem. I believe it will help the OP with his
> though.
What was your problem? This is the first post I see from you in this
thread :-?
OTOH, it is not very clear for me what is exact role of those files. If
we read this doc:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/cupsdocumentation
It says:
***
(...) Page-specific option settings cannot be set as default in the PPD
files, but they can be set by editing the ~/.cups/lpoptions or /etc/cups/
lpoptions files.
***
But does not say what to put in there or in what format.
> I hoped that this thread might help in getting cups to work on the
> stable/testing and sid partitions. Sadly it didn't. I have, however,
> cups working on a lenny (from CD) to Testing partition which is better
> then nothing.
Maybe if you explain what's wrong in your side, someone can help :-)
> As a possible side note that may be of help to others having a similar
> problem with cups. The 3 partitions that cups is not working on were
> installed on the HD by a company that advertizes Debian / RedHat systems
> installs. It turned out RedHat is what they know and I believe they
> have something installed incorrectly for Debian. The only partition
> that works correctly is the one I installed from Debian CD's. This drive
> came with a system purchased 3-4 years ago.
>
> Hope this might be of use to others.
I've never had any problem with CUPS, but true is that all the printers we
have at the office are very well supported by Linux (all are PostScript
or PCL6 based and using network adapters, just one of them is shared via
windows an using a samba backend), and still had not to play with
printers shared over a big network with VPN's or firewalls in between ;-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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