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Re: Debathena Gutsy updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Dec 10 11:41:58 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:41:49 -0500
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On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 03:48 -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> One issue that is still particularly ugly on Ubuntu Gutsy is printing;
> apparently their Gnome integration no longer has a "LPR command" option --
> it seems you have to use CUPS or print to a file. We've been thinking
> about setting up a campus-wide CUPS server that Debathena can default to,
> now that authentication is turned off.
I believe authentication is only turned off for cluster printers, not
dorm printers, although that may be more a matter of accident than
careful policy review.
I've heard that you can set up lpr as a back end to cups somehow, and
that's how stock RHEL support does printing at the moment. Of course,
from my perspective it would be a lot easier if we could avoid
installing any special software and just print with what comes installed
on Ubuntu, but I believe that requires changing the server
infrastructure.
