Jim Kinney mentioned on the K12LTSP list a month or two back that he was working on this exact problem. Not sure if he got it working or not. Use google to check the archives at www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn.
Petre 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
