Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:34:33 +0200 From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Samba] Server-side printer settings? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Thu Aug 14 10:30:35 GMT 20030> We have just installed a colour photocopier with duplexing at a client's
Hi all!
I have a situtation that I want to get happening:
office. We're looking to have four printers pointing at this one device,
I guess you mean four print*queues*...
Sorry. :-) The funky setup that Mandrake provides has spoiled me. It's a welcome change from those damned OpenServer and UnixWare "servers" I have to take care
of.
with the following settings (one for each printer):
* Black and White * Black and White, Duplexed * Colour * Colour Duplexed
My question is, can we have server-side settings for this sort of thing?
Yes. See
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-11th-draft.html#11_2_10 http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/Samba-HOWTO-Collection-3.0-PrintingChapter-11th-draft.html#11_1
My question is, do you know which Unix print sub-system your Samba server relies on? Do you mind telling? Do you know which kind of client Windows OS there are using this Samba server?
I do not mind telling at all! CUPS is the print sub-system in use in this particular setup.
My reading of the rpcclient man page says that servers can contain settings, but I would like to be able to do the following:
* Specify which users can modify the settings for themselves and those that can't
Every user can modify settings for themselves. > > * Specify which users can update the server-side settings
Users listed in the "printer admin" setting of smb.conf (plus root) can modify the server-side settings.
Server-side settings are used as defaults, in case users don't specify or change user-side settings.
* (If possible but highly unlikely) Specify which parts of the printer settings can be modified in the first case
Not possible.
All responses that make me smarter welcome!
Depending on *what* *exactly* you want to effectivly achieve by having different user groups access different parts of the printer admin, there might be workarounds. It would involve the editing of the printer driver's PPD, to remove options that are not meant to be user-selectable (and leaving only the one[s] which should be used). F.e. your "Black and White" queue would not have a "Colour" option, and your "Colour Duplex" not a black and white and simplex one. Of course, your users would still be able to switch queues if they wanted the other option in printing. (You could fiddle with the access to the queues too, of course),
Smarter now?
Very much so! Thanks!
Regards,
Chris
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