Script for installing fi printers on Linux via Samba print server.
Script for installing faculty printers on Linux via Samba print server.
** Advantages:
** Advantages
+ You can print on WiFi with Samba. (Pure IPP printing allows only printing via Ethernet cable)
+ You can print on WiFi using Samba. (With unauthenticated IPP printing you are allowed to only print via Ethernet cable.)
+ You can add a FI printer to your existing cups instance. This way, you don't have to switch configurations.
+ You can add a FI printer to your existing CUPS instance. This way, you don't have to switch configurations.
+ You don't need to have the same login on your computer as your faculty login.
+ You don't need to have the same login on your computer as your faculty login.
** Pre-requirements:
** Disadvantages
+ Printers have to be installed one by one.
+ This is not the prefered way of printing on fi. (Prefered way is via Kerberos.)
** Pre-requirements
+ root access (or sudo)
+ root access (or sudo)
+ running local [[https://www.cups.org/][CUPS]] print server
+ running local [[https://www.cups.org/][CUPS]] print server
+ samba client (~smbclient~)
+ Samba client (~smbclient~)
+ for ~TA5007ci~ python2
+ Python2 for ~copy4a~ and ~copy5b~
*** Note
*** Warning
If you have previously have used pure IPP printing before, you might want to cancel printing from your machine.
If you are printing with unauthenticated IPP or Kerberized IPP, you will have to remove client configuration file for CUPS, which is located at ~/etc/cups/client.conf~.
If that is the case, send a request to unix@fi.muni.cz.
**** Warning
If you are printing with pure IPP or Kerberos, you will have to remove client configuration for cups, which is located at ~/etc/cups/client.conf~.
** Usage
** Usage
Usage: ~./install.pl <printer-name>~ , where ~<printer-name>~ is valid printer name.
Usage: ~./install.pl <printer-name>~ , where ~<printer-name>~ is a valid printer name.
For example to install printer ~lj2b~ run
For example, to install printer ~lj2b~ run
#+begin_src bash
#+begin_src shell
./install.pl lj2b
./install.pl lj2b
#+end_src
#+end_src
After running the script, you will be prompted for you faculty login.
After running the script, you will be prompted for you faculty login(username and password).
