Duplicating CUPS Printer installation

[Tony Molloy]

On Friday 05 October 2007 16:22, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> On the other hand, if you were setting up clone machines which all
> >> had their own printers, the exact same models, then I would expect
> >> that copying the customised CUPS files on one machine to the others
> >> would do the trick.
>
> Tony Molloy:
> > I'll try this. I just copied the printers.conf file to a second
> > machine ans restarted cups. While that worked for most printing ( eg.
> > firefox, openoffice ) it didn't work for some lpr jobs of simple text
> > files. I got the dreaded stepping effect.
>
> Have a look through the rest of the CUPS directory, you might need to
> copy more than just that file over.
>

Copying the printers.conf and xxx.ppd files over seems to work.

Well I've just done it for all the machines this morning ;-)

Thanks.

Tony.

> You should probably find out what protocol your Windows printer server
> uses, that might help with solutions.

>
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