[cups.general] is there a cups.schema for ldap?

[Jerome Alet]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:08:30PM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> wtautz wrote:
> >Walter, I notice that cups can talk to ldap. I presume this is for the
> >purpose
> >of configuring printers? Perhaps it can do authentication too? Perhaps
> >the opposite
> >process works, i.e. cups-->ldap. At least one gets this impression when
> >reading
> >the documentation?
> >
> >For printers has anyone configured printers in ldap and had cups
> >successfully configure
> >itself?
> 
> No, the current LDAP support is only for advertising printers from a
> server and not for storing configuration data.

Maybe this could be done (at least partially) by using the printer 
schema (rfc3712 I think) and some scripting to configure CUPS' print 
queues from the contents of your LDAP tree. 

bye

Jerome Alet