Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:29:18 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Ted Buswell <tbuswell@acadia.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes Message-ID: <v04210113b540c6165604@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <14617.37135.323534.539710@smpbox> References: <v0421010bb53f1baa2310@[128.113.24.47]> <v0421010eb53f36b37d37@[128.113.24.47]> <14617.37135.323534.539710@smpbox>
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At 1:02 PM -0400 5/10/00, Ted Buswell wrote: >Right now, you could write a shell script to create all of >the various permutations of printer shares, each one with >an appropriate "print command" directive in your smb.conf. We have >200 printers in printcap, and each of those printers has at least two (and usually four or more) names. To add two options (-h and -m), would mean more than 4*5*200 names. Ick... >Or alternatively, hack the appropriate bits in Samba so that >you can have your clients connect to \\s\p\options to get lpr >printer 'p' off of server 'p', with given options. >For example: \\server\printer\noheader,email >would result in Samba invoking "lpr -Pprinter -h -m". Initially this seemed like the wrong idea, but the more I think about it the more I like it. Certainly if I got that working, it would avoid all possible conflicts with any setup anyone currently has. And it could be readily extended to a lot more than just those two options. >This isn't different from your proposed mod to lpr, it just >shuffles where the work is done. Well, it's different in one major way. Here at RPI, I have complete and utter control over lpr. A different guy does samba, and he's buried with other projects right now... :-) Still, I'll have to think about this some more. I think this is probably the most promising strategy to consider. Thanks! --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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