Am Samstag, 27. März 2004 12:43 schrieb garry saddington: > On Friday 26 March 2004 21:35, Adrian Kuepker wrote: > > Our installed user-base is increasingly nicely here, and I need to be > > able to assign a default printer on a per-machine in LTSP. Many of the > > PCs have a local printer attached, and most of the rest have their own > > workgroup printer. The various offices are still within the same > > subnet, but many are locationally isolated or are staff which do not > > necessarily understand things like modifying LP commands or the bash > > prompt. > > > > Is there any way to send this information to their KDE sessions via the > > LTSP config files? While it's possible to do so via the bash_profile > > and/or bashrc, I'd like to avoid doing this, as that would add yet > > another file that needs to be changed each time a terminal is switched > > out or moved. > > I have a similar problem. I want to restrict access to certain printers so > that print jobs are not sent to the wrong printer - these kids are sending > print jobs all over the place! For example if they are working in room 22 > say, I would like the machines there to only see the printer in that room. > Setting access on a per user basis is realy out of the question when there > are nearly 900 of them. can anyone point me in the right direction? > regards > garry
I'd try this: Create a group named "prn<number>" for each printer. Setup each printer with cups so only users that are members of that group may print on this printer. Then change the Xsession script such that a user is kicked out of every prn group at logon, then added to the one group that he belongs to (which can be determined by having a look at DISPLAY environment variable). Hint: Though I did not find any mention of it, specifying @groupname instead of any username in /etc/cups/printers.conf (or with the lpadmin command) seems to work as expected. If you get something reasonable out of this, please document it. Regards Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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
