Troy Dawson said...
|
|Niels Walet wrote:
|> I hate replying to my own messages, but all indications are that redhat g
|> ave
|> up on having a CLI tool. The description found at
|> http://cyberelk.net/tim/2007/05/04/what-happened-to-printconf-tui/ "argue
|> s"
|> the case for abandoning it. Not convinced I agree if these are networked
|> printers, and I only want to install a few with the correct drivers. Of
|> course we can install a print server, but why?
|> I still would like to see a high quality script that does this job though
|> !
|> 
|> Niels
|
|I am not a printer expert (which is why I haven't replied earlier) but can't 
|you just take the configuration files in /etc/cups/ from the one machine that 
|has them all, and just copy it to the other machine?

You [potentially] need to change or copy over several files.

cups/cupsd.conf
cups/lpoptions
cups/ppd/$PRINTER.ppd # for each PRINTER you care about
cups/printers.conf

We just keep a set of cups tarballs for each network
that has different settings.  An rpm would of course
work, also.

If you want things identical, you can, indeed, just
clone the /etc/cups/ tree.