On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:04 +0000, tim matthews wrote:
> firstly, let me say how great it is that your school is using open 
> source. that means that money not spent on commericial software, is 
> money saved by the school and can be spent for other things.

There should be something going on fridge soon. I had a guy from
canonical email me to take our case study I just need to get his some
pictures of our labs, and happy smiley people using it productively. All
the kids are happy with it, esp' at lunch when they swamp the labs to
play flash games online!

> from what I understand here, you want to use cups for some printers. 
> your setup is very well done (thin clients, great stuff). however, I did 
> find one limitation on ubuntu ... using cups.

I'm finding that out too.. If ubuntu wants to get into the enterprise
more, this will have to be addressed at some stage. Do I hear someone
say "Put an option on the server install cd to install a pre-configured
cups server.. email server, headless ltsp server etal" I would be more
than willing to test stuff out in this respect.

> Ubuntu expects you to use their panel interface for cups, not 
> http://localhost:661/. I found this out the hard way, if I had known it 
> would have only taken me five minutes to set up the printing on my 
> ubuntu box!
> maybe you might want to consider using the ubuntu server version .. 
> maybe then you could use cups itself through its webinterface?
> 
> just my guess ... anyway, let me know the solution !

I am in-fact using the dapper server, then installing cupsys cupsys-bsd
fommatic-filters-ppds.... etc etc

Adding Allow my.net.work.ip

to / and /admin in cupsd.conf has enabled the web interface. 

Up to this point is fantastic.

Adding the printer is where I have problems. As soon as I finish the
setup and click add printer the page asks me to upgrade or access
the /admin via https. If this https has been complied out by the package
maintainers upstream then why is it still asking me for https when
adding a printer? It just doesn't make sense to me.

-- 
Kind regards
Alistair Crust
Systems Administrator 
Skegness Grammar School 
Vernon Road 
Skegness 
PE25 2QS 
TEL: 01754 610000 (ext'852)
FAX: 01754 896875 


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