Physics Department CUPS Print Server

From BNL Physics Computing

A central CUPS print server is availble. It knows about many groups printers. You can either directly point your client to the server or, if you want to limit the number of visible computers, you can run your own CUPS server an poll the central one.

The server has a web interface at http://cups.phy.bnl.gov:631/ that exports some functionality to all users.

Contents

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Setup CUPS client

Install CUPS client related packages and in /etc/cups/client.conf set: 

 ServerName cups.phy.bnl.gov
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Setup CUPS polling server

Install CUPS server related packages and in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf set (among other things): 

 BrowsePoll cups.phy.bnl.gov:631
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LPD printing

You can use legacy LPD style client with an /etc/printcap entry something like: 

 PRINTQUEUE:\
       :lp=:\
       :sd=/var/spool/PRINTQUEUENAME:\
       :rm=cups.phy.bnl.gov:\
       :rp=PRINTQUEUENAME:\
       :lf=/var/spool/errorlog:
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Windows Clients

For now see: this page at SLAC. In place of SLAC's example printserver use 

cups.phy.bnl.gov
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Mac OS X Clients

To be written.

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