share published printer FC4?

Mr Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 25 18:49:11 UTC 2008


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:09:16AM -0500, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
>  
>
>>Is there a 'share published printers' checkbox in the cups that comes in 
>>FC4? I don't see the checkbox in localhost:631/admin
>>    
>>
>
>Probably not.  That's quite old.  I think old enough that it had to be
>done by editing the config files just right.
>  
>
/etc/rc/init.d/cups? I see nothing in there about sharing..

#!/bin/sh
#
# "$Id: cups.sh,v 1.10 2000/03/30 05:19:16 mike Exp $"
#
#   Startup/shutdown script for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS).
#
#   Linux chkconfig stuff:
#
#   chkconfig: 2345 55 10
#   description: Startup/shutdown script for the Common UNIX \
#                Printing System (CUPS).
#
#   Copyright 1997-2000 by Easy Software Products, all rights reserved.
#
#   These coded instructions, statements, and computer programs are the
#   property of Easy Software Products and are protected by Federal
#   copyright law.  Distribution and use rights are outlined in the file
#   "LICENSE.txt" which should have been included with this file.  If this
#   file is missing or damaged please contact Easy Software Products
#   at:
#
#       Attn: CUPS Licensing Information
#       Easy Software Products
#       44141 Airport View Drive, Suite 204
#       Hollywood, Maryland 20636-3111 USA
#
#       Voice: (301) 373-9603
#       EMail: cups-info-OBZt+0Fux+w at public.gmane.org
#         WWW: http://www.cups.org
#
# heavily edited so that it's more like other scripts in init.d on Red Hat
# Linux

# Source function library.
if [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ] ; then
        . /etc/init.d/functions
elif [ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ] ; then
        . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
else
        exit 0
fi

DAEMON=cupsd

prog=cups

config () {
        # Is this a printconf system?
        if [ -x /usr/sbin/printconf-backend ]
        then
                # run printconf-backend to set up the configuration.
                /usr/sbin/printconf-backend
        fi
}

start () {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "

        config

        # start daemon
        daemon $DAEMON
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/cups
        return $RETVAL
}

stop () {
        # stop daemon
        echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
        killproc $DAEMON
        RETVAL=$?
        echo
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/cups
}

restart() {
        stop
        start
}

case $1 in
        start)
                start
        ;;
        stop)
                stop
        ;;
        restart)
                restart
        ;;
        condrestart)
                [ -f /var/lock/subsys/cups ] && restart || :
        ;;
        reload)
                echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
                config
                killproc $DAEMON -HUP
                RETVAL=$?
                echo
                if [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ]
                then
                        # Rebuild ppds.dat file if the daemon wasn't
                        # there to do it.
                        $DAEMON --ppdsdat
                fi
        ;;
        status)
                status $DAEMON
        ;;
        *)
        echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|condrestart|reload|status}"
        exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL


Chris

>  
>
>>I can't print remotely (from another computer in my LAN) to the printer 
>>(attached to the FC4 machine) and that is usually the problem. However, 
>>this is an older OS so I don't know if it has that checkbox.
>>    
>>
>
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