On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:35:43AM -0600, Roy Souther wrote: > I want to make it so that only the people in that class room can see > that printer. So basically if you are using a terminal in a zone you > have a restricted view of what printers are available.
Only people in that classroom can SEE the printer, or print to the printer? If it's print, then that's easy: cups allows you to assign permissions based on userid, so for each class, just add the people in the class. If it's SEE, then that's going to require patches to CUPS, as all printers as visible by default. You'll also have to do it based on $DISPLAY, rather than MAC address, because the print requests are coming from the server anyway, so the terminal's mac address isn't going to come into it, because it's not visible at that point. The $DISPLAY variable is, however. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us Systems Department | To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side..." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Pink Floyd "High Hopes" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
