[opensuse] Renaming Printers on 10.3
I'm just about to upgrade a 10.1 system to 10.3, this system runs LTSP and each terminal has it's own printer. With 10.1 it is possible to choose a name for the printers, therefore they can be described by their location. With 10.3 yast uses the name of the driver and there is no way within Yast to change the name. Anyone got a work around? Rgds Dave Cotton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave Cotton wrote:
I'm just about to upgrade a 10.1 system to 10.3, this system runs LTSP and each terminal has it's own printer. With 10.1 it is possible to choose a name for the printers, therefore they can be described by their location. With 10.3 yast uses the name of the driver and there is no way within Yast to change the name.
I see the same dialog in YaST as ever?? jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
jdd sur free wrote:
Dave Cotton wrote:
I'm just about to upgrade a 10.1 system to 10.3, this system runs LTSP and each terminal has it's own printer. With 10.1 it is possible to choose a name for the printers, therefore they can be described by their location. With 10.3 yast uses the name of the driver and there is no way within Yast to change the name.
I see the same dialog in YaST as ever??
OK, Yes you're right, forgot I was calling up printer config from control center and not yast. Oh well just goes to show that we are succeeding in aping M$, multiple ways of doing something but each does it in it's own way. dhc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-05-13 at 13:57 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:
10.3 yast uses the name of the driver and there is no way within Yast to change the name.
Then don't use yast, use cups. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIKYVxtTMYHG2NR9URAo6zAJ90cTgL/jEdBEWuTiB1BiXCsPJOmQCfWeeM zG1xELRenpdVWOKBtAk+6TA= =5wcX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2008-05-13 at 13:57 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:
10.3 yast uses the name of the driver and there is no way within Yast to change the name.
Then don't use yast, use cups.
Well really I'd prefer to use vi and edit the configs directly, but normal users may not be aware that the first "Printers" icon they see in control center is not the one they really want but they must move down the page click on "yast" and become root and voila another "Printers" icon. Not that easy to explain down a telephone. dhc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-05-13 at 14:35 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:
The Tuesday 2008-05-13 at 13:57 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:
10.3 yast uses the name of the driver and there is no way within Yast to change the name.
Then don't use yast, use cups.
Well really I'd prefer to use vi and edit the configs directly, but normal users may not be aware that the first "Printers" icon they see in control center is not the one they really want but they must move down the page click on "yast" and become root and voila another "Printers" icon.
Not that easy to explain down a telephone.
:-) I was not refering to the command line, but to http://localhost:631/ - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIKY1TtTMYHG2NR9URAjLjAJ4uT4Im4HVewJlbLJqFuZkaNTcvygCggaW2 x7j034oFCGgq77PQ/d5nwuE= =JT+U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I was not refering to the command line, but to http://localhost:631/
by the way, in the pre-cups times I always used command line, but cups config files are not that friendly it's a general evolution of linux, hal files are not friendly neither jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-05-13 at 16:30 +0200, jdd sur free wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
I was not refering to the command line, but to http://localhost:631/
by the way, in the pre-cups times I always used command line, but cups config files are not that friendly
it's a general evolution of linux, hal files are not friendly neither
I agree that hal files are difficult, but cup files are easy, they are simple text files. Hal files are xml. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIKhbxtTMYHG2NR9URAohaAJ9iEQf1Mrkdyc4ffLsCHG6vPZDZvgCgjMcC DjYbGNKLDtHKA2BgEf2v2Ho= =XwWg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave Cotton wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2008-05-13 at 13:57 +0200, Dave Cotton wrote:
10.3 yast uses the name of the driver and there is no way within Yast to change the name.
Then don't use yast, use cups.
Well really I'd prefer to use vi and edit the configs directly, but normal users may not be aware that the first "Printers" icon they see in control center is not the one they really want but they must move down the page click on "yast" and become root and voila another "Printers" icon.
Not that easy to explain down a telephone.
If you set up the system properly in the first place, the users have no business doing that sort of thing. That's a super user (admin) responsibility, not a user responsibility(*) ....even in Windows. (*) Especially in a "public-usage" set up like LTSP. The last thing you need is one user screwing everything up for the others. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave Cotton wrote:
I'm just about to upgrade a 10.1 system to 10.3, this system runs LTSP and each terminal has it's own printer. With 10.1 it is possible to choose a name for the printers, therefore they can be described by their location. With 10.3 yast uses the name of the driver and there is no way within Yast to change the name.
Anyone got a work around?
Just administrate CUPS directly. HTTP://localhost/:631 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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Dave Cotton
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jdd sur free
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Sam Clemens