Thanks for the reply.
On Sep 5, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Peter Schwenk <schwenk(a)math.udel.edu> writes:
> I was wondering if someone could describe the correct way of
> preconfiguring network printer queues via a script. I don't want my
> users to have to set up their own printers. Thanks in advance for
> your help.
I'd like to know what the approved way is too. Setting up cups seems
like one of the grottier aspects of running a handful of identical
Fedora systems on a network.
So far I've been hacking it via "scp -p" from a preconfigured and
working system. I update:
/etc/printcap
/etc/cups/* (anything with a mod-time after I installed the system).
After I posted my question, I decided to try just copying over the /etc/cups directory of
a correctly configured computer to another computer and restarting CUPS. It seems to work
fine. All I need to do is run lpadmin to set the appropriate default printer for the
machine. I guess I just wasn't certain if there were any other files that play a role
in printer configuration. I didn't think of /etc/printcap. I guess I'll throw
that one in, too.
Hopefully someone will be disgusted enough with this answser to speak up
and tell us the correct way. ;-)
-wolfgang
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