Forgive me if I'm totally wrong on this... Could you set some kind of
environment variable ("default_print_queue" maybe?) at login that is
based on MAC address...??
On Fri, 2006-17-11 at 13:52 -0500, Joe Auerbach wrote:
> You know, I never thought about this before, but is it possible to have
> the printer default to the ltsp kernel?
>
> For example, have ten copies of the kernel in 10 directories and each
> directory has a printer defaulted somewhere in it. Is that possible, or
> is it all dependent on the login?
>
> Another question to ask would be whether there's a printer option that
> can be loaded into lts.conf or some other config file we have.
>
> Alexander Hungenberg wrote:
>
> >Hello list,
> >I'm new here, so I first want to say hello. But the reason for contacting
> >this
> >list is a big challenge with ltsp. I'm a student on a school in Germany and
> >I
> >manage the computers with some others...
> >
> >This summer we decided to bring PC's in each classroom. The perfect solution
> >for it: ltsp. Because we bought new PCs for one computer room, we could use
> >the 7 years old ones as terminal clients. We only needed to buy a new big
> >Server.
> >
> >Now our problem. The system works very fine, and everything is allright. But
> >it would be nice, if we also could print at the terminals. Normally, that's
> >no problem. But we want to restrict the access to the printers based on the
> >geographical location of the terminal and the printer.
> >
> >So it would be ideally, if we have a list with the IPs of the terminals and
> >then the printers by each IP where you are allowed to print at.
> >
> >I heard about the possibility to change a cups binary on the server which
> >filters the IP of the terminal where the current user works out of the
> >DISPLAY variable. With this you could look in the list if it is allowed to
> >print on this printer. But I'm not so familiar with CUPS that I know where
> >to
> >begin.
> >
> >Someone on the LinuxWorldExpo in Cologne this week recommended me this list,
> >because he knew that here are people, who manage even much bigger terminal
> >networks. So I would be grateful if someone can help me with this problem.
> >
> >Have a nice weekend
> > Alexander Hungenberg
> >
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