CUPS Administrative Guide Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Building and Installing CUPS
Chapter 3: Printer Management
Chapter 4: Managing Multiple Printers at a Time
Chapter 5: CUPS Server Management
Chapter 6: Client Setup
Chapter 7: Quota Management
Chapter 8: Monitoring CUPS
Chapter 9: File Typing and Filtering
Chapter 10: Security
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Overview of the CUPS Features
  • History of Printing in UNIX
  • Printing with Personal Computers
  • Evolution of CUPS as a Printing System
    • Architecture of CUPS
    • Network Printing
  • CUPS Features
    • Support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
    • Compatibility with Other Print Systems
    • Support for Web Interface
    • Modular Architecture
    • Support of Postscript Printer Description Drivers (PPDs) in CUPS

• Summary

• Chapter 2: Building and Installing CUPS
  • Downloading Source Code
    • Compiling CUPS
  • Installing the Software
  • Installing a Binary Distribution
    • Building RPMs
    • Creating Binary Distribution with EPM
  • Installing a Portable Distribution
  • Installing an RPM Distribution
  • Installing CUPS from a Debian Distribution
  • Subversion Access
    • Compiling from Subversion
  • Running the Software

• Installing CUPS Using the Package Manager on Linux
• Testing CUPS
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Printer Management
  • Printer Drivers
    • PostScript Printer Description (PPD) Drivers
    • Non-PostScript Printers
    • Ghostscript Built-In
      • Filter
      • CUPS Raster
      • Ink Jet Server (IJS) Plug-in
      • Uniprint
      • CUPS DDK
      • Foomatic-RIP
    • Installing PPD
  • Managing Printer through the Command Line
    • Basic Command for Adding the Printer
    • Managing Printers from the Command-Line
    • Deleting Printers
    • Setting the Default Printer
    • Starting and Stopping Printers
    • Accepting and Rejecting Print Jobs
    • Checking Printer Status
    • Setting Quotas on a Printer
    • Restricting User Access to a Printer
    • Printing Banner Pages
    • Some More Printer and CUPS-Specific Commands
  • Managing Print Jobs through Command Line
    • Submitting Files for Printing
      • Checking the Status of Print Jobs
    • Choosing a Printer
    • Setting Printer Options
    • Printing the Output of a Program
    • Printing Multiple Copies
    • Checking the Printer Status
    • Canceling a Print Job
    • Moving a Print Job
  • Managing Printers using the CUPS Web Interface
    • Administration
    • Adding a New Printer
    • Managing Jobs
    • Find New Printers
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Managing Multiple Printers at a Time
  • Configuring Printer Classes
    • Features and Advantages
    • Implicit Class
  • Managing Printer Classes Through Command-Line
    • Adding a Printer to a Class
    • Removing a Printer from a Class
    • Removing a Class

• Managing Printer Classes Through CUPS Web Interface
  • Adding a New Printer Class
    • Stop Class
    • Reject Jobs
    • Unpublished Printer
    • Cancel All Jobs
    • Delete Class
    • Modifying a Class
    • Setting up Printer Options for Class
    • Printing a Test Page for a Printer Class
    • Setting a Printer Class as Default
    • Set Allowed Users
    • Nested Printer Classes

• Summary

• Chapter 5: CUPS Server Management
  • System Requirement
  • Configuration Files
  • Classes Directives
    • Accepting
    • Printer
    • Class
    • DefaultClass
    • AllowUser
    • DenyUser
    • Info
    • Location
    • JobSheets
    • KLimit
    • PageLimit
    • QuotaPeriod
    • State
    • StateMessage
  • Client Directives
    • ServerName
    • Encryption
  • Server Directives
    • Editing the cupsd.conf File Via the Web Interface
  • Important Directives of cupsd.conf
    • Server Identity
      • ServerAdmin
      • ServerName
    • Server Options
      • LogLevel
    • Network Options
      • Listen
      • Port
    • Browsing Options
      • Browsing
      • BrowseOrder
      • BrowseAllow
      • BrowseDeny
      • BrowseProtocols
      • BrowseAddress
      • BrowseShortNames
    • Security Options
      • SystemGroup
      • AuthType
      • Location
    • ImplicitClasses
    • ImplicitAnyClasses
  • Printer Directives
    • Accepting
    • Printer
    • DefaultPrinter
    • AllowUser
    • DenyUser
    • DeviceURI
    • Info
    • Location
    • JobSheets
    • KLimit
    • PageLimit
    • QuotaPeriod
    • State
    • StateMessage
  • Concept of Operation Policies
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Client Setup
  • Setting up a CUPS Client
    • Print Queues
      • Manual Configuration of Print Queues
      • Automatic Configuration of Print Queues
      • CUPS Server's Communication with Clients
      • Load Balancing and Failsafe Operation
      • UNIX/Linux Client
    • LPD Clients
      • xinetd
      • inetd
    • Windows Clients
      • Printing with Samba
    • Printing with Other Systems
      • Printing with LPD Servers (lpd)
      • Printing with Mac OS X 10.2 or later
      • Printing with Windows Servers (smb)
      • LPD
      • Samba
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Quota Management
  • Setting up Quota in CUPS
    • job-k-limit
    • job-page-limit
    • job-quota-period
    • User Restrictions
    • Error Messages
  • Correct and Incorrect Accounting
  • Overview of the page_log file
  • Flaws of the CUPS Quota system
  • Other Accounting Tools
    • PyKota
      • Features of PyKota:
      • Checking Prerequisites and Downloading Application
      • Installation
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Monitoring CUPS
  • Using the lpstat Command

• Overview of the access_log File
• Overview of the error_log File
  • How SNMP Helps Search for Network Printers

• Overview of snmp.conf
  • Address
  • Community
  • DebugLevel
  • DeviceURI
  • HostNameLookups
  • MaxRunTime

• How SNMP Behaves in the CUPS Web Interface
  • Overview of Basic Debugging in CUPS-SNMP

• Overview of mailto.conf
• Monitoring SNMP Printers
  • Downloading and Installing Cacti
    • Features of Cacti
  • Configuring an SNMP Printer with Cacti

• Summary

• Chapter 9: File Typing and Filtering
  • Architecture—CUPS Filtering System
  • An Overview of the mime.types file
  • An Overview of the mime.convs file
  • Adding Filetypes and Filters
  • Overview of Filter in CUPS
    • An Overview of pre-filters
    • An Overview of the pstops Filter
    • An Overview of the pstoraster Filter
    • An Overview of the imagetoraster Filter
    • An Overview of the imagetops Filter
    • Rasterto and other Printer-Specific Filters
    • Foomatic and cupsomatic Filters
    • Additional Filter Functionality
      • Raw Printing
      • Application/octet-stream Printing
      • PostScript Printer Descriptions (PPDs) for non-PostScript Printers
      • Cupsomatic/foomatic-rip versus Native CUPS Printing
      • Examples for Filtering Chains
      • Printing with Interface Scripts
      • An Overview of the CUPS Printing Process
      • Writing your own Filter or Printer Driver
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Security
  • Encryption Support in CUPS
    • Configuring SSL during CUPS Installation
    • Encryption Support
      • SSLListen
      • SSLPort
      • Encryption
  • Access Control
    • Address-Based Access Control
  • Authentication Support
    • Authentication using Password
      • Basic Authentication
      • Digest Authentication
    • Authentication using Certificates
      • System and Group Authentication
    • Kerberos Authentication
      • Configuring Kerberos on the System
      • Configuring CUPS to use Kerberos Authentication
    • Protection from Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
      • CUPS Release Notes
  • Summary

• Index

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