LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.00 Administrator's Guide

LDAP Printer Configurator Support
Managing the LP printer configuration
Chapter 388
Managing the LP printer configuration
The LDAP-UX Client Services provide the printer configurator
integration; the product daemon automatically updates the remote LP
printer configuration of a client system based on the available printer
objects in the Directory Server. The printer configurator provides the
printer configuration management; it verifies if the printer configuration
has any conflict with the LP printer configurations in the client system
before it actually adds or deletes a printer.
Following are five examples to show how the LDAP printer configurator
provides central management of printer services based on the printer
objects stored in the Directory Server:
Example 1:
An administrator sets up a new printer located in the Engineering Lab
and wants this printer to be shared. This printer is physically connected
to a system hostA and is set up as a local printer lj2004. The
administrator creates a new printer entry in the directory server as
follow:
dn: printer-name=laser2,ou=printers,dc=hp,dc=com
printer-name: laser2
printer-uri: lpd://hostA.hp.com/lj2004
A new printer configuration for laser2 is created automatically in every
client system if the LDAP printer configurator is running. The print
queue for laser2 is enabled and ready to accept print jobs. Users can
sent their print jobs to laser2 by typing lp -dlaser2 filename.
Example 2:
IT department would like to store additional service information in the
printer object. The administrator modifies the printer object by adding
more printer attributes. The modified content of the printer object is
shown as below:
dn: printer-name=laser2,ou=printers,dc=hp,dc=com
printer-name: laser2
printer-uri: lpd://hostA.cup.hp.com/lj2004
printer-location: Engineering Lab
printer-model: Hewlett Packard laserjet Model 2004N
printer-service-person: David Lott