[cups.general] Shared by default

[Alex Korobkin]

On 10 December 2012 13:38, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:

> Alex,
>
> On 2012-12-07, at 2:28 PM, Alex Korobkin <korobkin+cups at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to see the checkbox "Share This Printer" to be checked by default,
> when adding a new printer to CUPS 1.5.4 via web interface.
>
> add-printer.tmpl has this snippet:
>
> <TD><INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="PRINTER_IS_SHARED"
> {PRINTER_IS_SHARED=1?CHECKED:}>
>
> However, I don't see any examples of a checked box in other tmpl files.
> How to modify it to have this option checked by default?
>
>
> Just replace with:
>
>     <TD><INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="PRINTER_IS_SHARED" CHECKED>
>
> Also, why do printers that are certainly shared (and were created as
> shared) have "(Idle, Accepting Jobs, Not Shared)" displayed in the header
> when you open them in web interface?
>
>
> The value shown depends on whether printer sharing is enabled on the
> server (a printer might be shared but if sharing is not enabled then it
> will still not be sharable, if that makes sense?)
>
>
That's cupsctl --share-printers --remote-any, it seems.
Thanks for the hints, Michael!


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