Sharing the experience for set up printer in thin client of Edubuntu 7.04

[Luis Montes]

I have a setup with 1 smbldap server, 2 edubuntu ltsp server, 70 thin 
clients, and 14 or so printers spread around the school.
Using the thin clients as printer servers makes much more sense than 
purchasing separate dedicated print servers except for that fact that it 
has a bug in 7.04.

It does however look like it has a fix for Gutsy:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/130472

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/110609


Luis


Dean Mumby wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 02:29 -0700, Ferri naldi wrote:
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>> then type in the MAC ADDRESS
>> of the workstation you noted earlier, the example
>> format is like this [00:11:25:84:CE:BA] , and press
>> enter one time so your cursor move 1 line then type
>> PRINTER_0_DEVICE=/dev/usblp0. Save it. We all can read
>> the detail about editing the lts.conf in
>> http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/handbook/C/ltsp-client.html
>> Now, setting up the printer driver. Open menu System -
>> menu Administration - menu Printing. Click on New
>> Printer, in will launch gnome-cups-something :), it
>> will take a while, then it will display some
>> configuration menu. Choose Network Printer, and then
>> in the right Choose TCP/SOCKET,HP JET DIRECT,RAW
>> CONNECTION from 4 option listed. In the middle there
>> are HOME Text Box and PORT text Box. The PORT has been
>> filled with 9100, we fill the HOME part, with IP
>> ADDRESS of printer workstation that we noted earlier,
>> for example is something like 192.168.0.244. Click
>> forward, Choose the manufacturer, model and driver of
>> the printer, for me it's Epson, Stylus C45,
>> gutenprint(simple). Than forward again, then OK. The
>> icon of your printer will be displayed in Printer
>> windows (where icon/menu New Printer existed). Logout
>> form the Server, restart. When the Server ready, turn
>> on the workstation of the printer again, login, when
>> the thin clien already display edubuntu environment
>> then try the printing through the printer you setup
>> before, first from the computer server, then if it's
>> okay (success), try from the workstation of the
>> printer, sometimes at first I have to reboot the
>> workstation one time, but after that every time I turn
>> on the workstation it automatically prints. Then try
>> another workstation to do printing to the printer
>> workstation. Well, it works up until now. I hope if
>> anyone try this it will be successfull too, if we are
>> going to use Paralel Printer not USB then change the
>> line in lts.conf of PRINTER_0_DEVICE=/dev/usblp0 to
>> PRINTER_0_DEVICE=/dev/lp0   
>>     
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> I was very excited when I first saw this post as this is a feature that
> I use with my current K12LTSP setup , I tried dlink print servers but
> found that using my HP t5000 was more reliable , I am now half way
> through moving to my new premises and have migrated to an ubuntu ltsp
> and although this feature works for the first print job , immediately
> afterwards port 9100 is no longer available. which means I have to
> reboot the thin clients and then they print a page and reboot again.
> This is not a solution , so I was hoping someone else may have seen the
> same thing. 
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> Regards
> dean
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