[LUGSB] Print from Anywhere

[Benjamin Bannier]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:12:08 -0400
Aaron Pellman-Isaacs <apellman at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:

> > Aaron Pellman-Isaacs wrote:
> >> At least on the mac side (which is all I've gotten to play with it
> >> on yet) it adds a printer type to use a pharos queue system and an 
> >> application that's called when that queue is activated that
> >> prompts for and sends a username (popup). All the uni app is is a
> >> bundling of pharos' system plus the info specific to stonybrook
> >> and a driver for the actual printers we use. It's possible that if
> >> pharos makes a linux client (cant check now, heading out the door)
> >> that we cna just use the info it enters (it's all stored in the
> >> app package, easily findable, I glanced at it a while back) to add
> >> the appropriate support to linux...

> > As a follow up, some quick googling tells me that pharos is a
> > standard lpd spool that takes a username as an option, the username
> > would have to be your netid obviously, the spool is prolly located
> > on Peanuts, but I know it's actually in the installer for PFA so
> > I'll look later. This seems to indicate it's theoretically possible
> > to use the system from linux, without software from pharos...

> Ack, sorry to spam the list, but I should mention this inference came 
> from: http://www.csc.sdstate.edu/~gamradtk/computers/printing.pdf
> 
> It's also possible that they're running a separate gateway for their 
> linux machines, that passes the username off to the pharos app
> somehow, which is also something stonybook could do if that's the
> method of doing this.

Hi Aaron,

thanks for digging for this. Nice they did not choose some broken stuff
to begin with. But I think the point is we are paying people at TLT to
provide us with this information behind the button labeled "Help".

They have some pretty words in their strategic plan about "best
practice" and "millennial students pushing faculty to expand technical
horizons", so they could make a nice start here.

And don't forget Grandma with her Dell Ubuntu machine wanting to print
via Airnet while drinking her latte on the lawn ...

b.
-- 
"If we had asked people what they wanted they would have said 'a  
faster horse'."  --Henry Ford
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