Selective broadcasting with CUPS for Webconverger

[gla...@gmail.com]

Hi,

It seems to be the case that if I have several printers and I only want to broadcast certain printers to certain subnets, I need to run multiple instances of cupsd on my server. If I run several instances which use ports 631, 632, 633, etc, do I need to modify the cups configuration for my Webconverger clients to listen on the non-standard ports which my server is setup to broadcast on?

If so, I'm trying to do this by accessing the CUPS administration page from the Webconverger clients. But it asks for a username and password when I try to make save any administrative changes in the CUPS web UI. Where would I be able to find these credentials?

Thank you

[Kai Hendry]

Hi there,

On 16 February 2013 04:00, <gla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to be the case that if I have several printers and I only want to
> broadcast certain printers to certain subnets, I need to run multiple
> instances of cupsd on my server. If I run several instances which use ports
> 631, 632, 633, etc, do I need to modify the cups configuration for my
> Webconverger clients to listen on the non-standard ports which my server is
> setup to broadcast on?

Your printer server setup sounds wrong to me. You should not need to
run on different ports.

> If so, I'm trying to do this by accessing the CUPS administration page from
> the Webconverger clients. But it asks for a username and password when I try
> to make save any administrative changes in the CUPS web UI. Where would I be
> able to find these credentials?

The configuration is here:
https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/blob/master/etc/cups/cupsd.conf#L20
and it's designed *not* to be changed, like the rest of Webconverger
really. It's a setup which just picks up print servers on the network
and prints to them.

Oh btw, I have been working harder than I thought on getting a print
button exposed. :) https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/issues/140
Should be out next release with FF19.

I will try look into the multiple print server setup next week.

Kind regards,

[Kai Hendry]

On 16 February 2013 14:23, Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com> wrote:
> Oh btw, I have been working harder than I thought on getting a print
> button exposed. :) https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/issues/140
> Should be out next release with FF19.

I've added the ability to show a print button here:
https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/commit/2b691b2f8854659eaa0f73731aa275f2e337523c

Enjoy,

[gla...@gmail.com]

Wow, you're awesome. Thanks so much for print button support!

And I do understand that Webconverger is set by default to pick up all printers which are broadcasted to the kiosk. But I'm trying to set up a system whereby certain kiosks see certain printers. That's more of a CUPS issue rather than a Webconverger issue, but the related CUPS documentation seems scarce. Thanks, though.