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Re: Athena 10 printer learnings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Oct 20 20:52:37 2008
Message-Id: <200810210049.m9L0np38003928@central.mit.edu>
To: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, athena10@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU, broder@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:17:31 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:49:51 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for cleaning up my Athena 10 printing observations; I knew about but
didn't bother to mention some of the modifications you suggest.
I knew about System->Administration->Printing but right now am having a
weird loop where it keeps asking for and rejecting my administrator password.
I had started with a local account that I modified to be able to use my home
directory but now it seems unhappy to take either my Athena password or what
I think I recall having chosen as the original local account password.
sudo -i is happy with my Athena password for some reason so I used
system-config-printer after doing that instead.
>> I saw no way to select a default printer using system-config-printer
> There's a "Make Default" button.
For some reason I can't find this, but maybe I missed it.
>> The default Device URI it sets up will be wrong. You need to replace it
>> with one like this: lpd://mulch.mit.edu/leander (mulch.mit.edu name is
>> the name of the print server which can be found from hesinfo <name> pcap
>> (<name> is the printer name, which should also go last on the lpd:...
>> line).
> This would be equivalent to the "LPD/LPR Host or Printer option", so while
> it's necessary to know the print server and the queue name, it's not
> necessary to specifically use the URI.
I didn't see where this was either, but again, I may have missed it.
Alex
