On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:38 AM, Jerry Goedhart wrote:
Our setup is similar to yours 10.4.2 server with 10.3.9 clients no
print server running. We have all brother printers that the clients
can use. Six that consist of (HL-1870n, HL-5170dn, HL-2700cn,
HL-6050dn). We tried to manage them by assigning them to the groups
of users that we had established. We had the same results that you
are experiencing. Every time a user would log in all the printers
that were assigned to them would populate the client computer. When
the user would log out the printers would not be deleted so
eventually we would have a large number of duplicate printers in
the printer setup. At one time there was as many as 185 printers in
the list. It affected log in times as well as printing problems.
Log in times went from 12 seconds to over a minute.
When I was building my 10.4-based image I had read about this issue
somewhere online. I decided to not even try managed printing. I
created a shell script that sets up the appropriate printers for each
computer the first time someone logs in after imaging.
The client hostnames are in a "room-##" format (like 133-01), so the
script gets the hostname, parses for the room, and sets booleans to
true for the printers I've chosen for that room. Then, it's a bunch
of these:
if [ $faculty2101 = true ] ; then
echo "FacultyWorkroom2101"
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p "FacultyWorkroom2101" -E -v "lpd://
172.18.191.236/" -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/
en.lproj/Fiery\ EX2101\ PS -o EFHCFOpt=HCF -o EFPunchOption=P3
fi
Making the lpadmin statements is a pain. Note the various '-o'
statement. These are the various options for each printer, like a
high-capacity feeder tray. To get the syntax for these statements you
have to look at the PPDs themselves, because the option names (like
"EFHCFFOpt") are printer-specific.
Once I went through the annoyance of writing the script, this has
worked fine.
BTW, if you're just looking for a file to copy, the current printers
appear to be set up in /etc/cups/printers.conf. If you set up one
computer, distribute that file and restart the others, I think you'll
get an identical setup.
Matt
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