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

wtautz wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Jun 27 07:46:53 PDT 2006


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.
>
I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean ldap can store a list of printer
names and
and apps can look in ldap for this list? Can you give an example of
using the
parameters in cupsd.conf?

walter





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