A Printer for a group of users?

[Orlando De Oliveira R]

Hello,

As I can configure to a group of users so that they prime for a single predetermined printer?.... and that they cannot see the rest of the printers defined in the operating system one.

Thank you,

[Pete Randall]

In their profile, you could set the LPDEST variable and that would become their default printer destination unless overridden with the -d option of the lp command.


Pete

[Orlando De Oliveira R]

Hello,

Thank you for your quick answer, but you could specify me better the steps to continue.

Thank you again,

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

This type of solution depends on how your users are printing. If they use the lp command, then the LPDEST variable will set a default destination for them as long as they do not override it with lp -d. Once you've set LPDEST for each of the users in this group by putting "export LPDEST=this_group's_printer, an lp command (without and -d override) will print to the printer you've set LPDEST to.

Does that make sense?


Pete

[Orlando De Oliveira R]

Thank you Pete,

The explanation was quite clear.

[Pete Randall]

Orlando,

I just re-read my answer and it wasn't very clear to me. Please, no points for this, I just wanted to straighten out what I meant to say:



This type of solution depends on how your users are printing. If they use the lp command, then the LPDEST variable will set a default destination for them as long as they do not override it with lp -d. Once you've set LPDEST for each of the users in this group by putting "export LPDEST=this_group's_printer" in their .profile, an lp command (without the -d override) will print to the printer you've set LPDEST to.


Pete

[Jose Antonio Orozco]

you can use a process to
1) ask to every user in your system to choose a printer (at logon, if not configured)
2) put that information in their home (i'm using .lpdest)
3) modify the logon profile script in order to set LPDEST
4) use a script to limit sending to their printer selected.
You must ensure the user is not able to change their selection ...
My scripts has spanish dialogs, but it could help you

I have the following lines in my /etc/profile
# selects a printer, if it isn't so
/usr/local/bin/PRINTER_SEL.SH
# set LPDEST
LPDEST=`cat $HOME/.lpdest | head -1`
export LPDEST

my best regards

J.A. OROZCO