Duplicating CUPS Printer installation

Jonathan Dieter jdieter at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 13:26:11 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need to set up a default CUPS printer on lots of machines in labs ( several 
> hundred ;-( ) running Fedora 7. I've got it configured and working on one 
> machine. Is there any way to duplicate the settings from that machine so that 
> I could install the printer on the other machines without running 
> system-config-printer on each machine.
> 
> It's not as simple as copying the /etc/cups/printers.conf file to each 
> machine.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony
> 

What's in /etc/cups/lpoptions?  If it says anything about the default
printer, that's the file you want to copy.

Jonathan
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