[232] in athena10
Tentative printing plan for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 4 16:37:51 2008
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:37:06 -0400
Message-Id: <200806042037.m54Kb60n031690@men-at-arms.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: athena10@MIT.EDU, sipb-cups@MIT.EDU
Here's what I would like us to do for printing:
1. The primary printing mechanism--the one used by GUI apps--will be
CUPS. The local CUPS server will be configured to contact a
browsing server which knows a list of MIT lpd print queues. This
will only work for printers which do not require Kerberos
authentication.
2. For the fall preview release, we'd like to use SIPB's
cups.mit.edu as the browsing server. I know that it is not
currently in a state where SIPB is comfortable with us doing
that, so that's open to negotiation.
3. Before the go-live to the clusters, we expect we would migrate to
an IS&T-maintained browsing server.
4. For some unstated period of time, we will offer a secondary
printing mechanism for the command line only, in the form of a
renamed mit-lprng package containing renamed commands (mit-lpr,
mit-lpq, etc.). There is precedent for this in IS&T's standalone
RHEL support. This would be used primarily for Kerberized
printing queues, but is also a backup in case the primary
printing infrastructure doesn't work for some use case, for
whatever reason.
I'm willing to do the mit-lprng package work since Evan isn't thrilled
about it.
