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CUPS Administrative Guide

You're reading from CUPS Administrative Guide

Product type Book

Published in Sep 2008

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ISBN-13 9781847192585

Pages 248 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Ankur Shah

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

CUPS Administrative Guide

Credits

About the Author

1. Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

2. Preface

1. Introduction

2. Building and Installing CUPS

3. Printer Management

4. Managing Multiple Printers at a Time

5. CUPS Server Management

6. Client Setup

7. Quota Management

8. Monitoring CUPS

9. File Typing and Filtering

10. Security

Printer Directives

Adding a new printer using the CUPS web interface is very easy. However, you can also configure your printers manually through the configuration files. To do this, you first need to backup your existing configuration, in case you make a mistake and need to restore the original file later.

$sudo cp /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf.original
$sudo vi /etc/cups/printers.conf

The details for each of the printers is stored in the printers.conf file. The configuration directives needed in the configuration file are very simple, and can be explained further by accessing the man page by typing man printers.conf at the command prompt. Here are some of the important directives in the printers.conf file:

Accepting
Printer
DefaultPrinter
DeviceURI
AllowUser
DenyUser
Info
Location
JobSheets
KLimit
PageLimit
QuotaPeriod
State
StateMessage

Accepting

The Accepting directive is used to define the initial Boolean value for the printer-is-accepting...

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Authors (1)

Ankur Shah

Ankur Shah has been working with Linux/AIX for last 4 years as a System Administrator. His previous assignment was with Packt Publishing, where he worked as System Administrator and also started implementing CUPS. He completed his graduation in Computer Engineering from Nagpur University, India. He is currently working as a SAP Basis Administrator and also started working on Governance Risk and Compliance for access Control. He is also interested in Oracle Database Administration and Security. He is the biggest fan of Kajol (a Bollywood actress) and dedicates this book to her. The day her movie releases is a day of celebration for him and he only parties once a year - 5th August - that's Kajol's birthday. It goes without saying that he watches all her movies several times - often dragging his friends and family to participate in his madness.

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