I'm trying to print to separate printers simultaneously in Ubuntu 14.04
From all of my reading the best option I've seen is to write a script
that sends an lp command to the separate printers.
This is the script I've written so far
!/bin/bash
lp -d printer "$#"
lp -d printer2 "$#"
where printer and printer 2 are the actual printers installed on the system
This script works from a terminal, however I would like to be able to send print jobs directly to a "printer" that is actually the script I've written.
How can I make this lp script into a "printer"
Ok I didn't find a way to do this the way I originally intended, however it is possible with tea4CUPS
great cups backend tool with an easy config file
http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups/download
The install instructions are on the download page.
As for printing to multiple printers, add this command in the config file for every printer you wish to print to.
prehook_firstprinter: /usr/bin/lp -d Name of Printer -o raw $TEADATAFILE
Here are the simplest instructions I could write
1. download the tea4cups.gz
Extract it to the home folder, rename it to tea4cups
Open a terminal and run these commands
sudo cp /home/manifester/tea4cups/tea4cups.conf /etc/cups
sudo cp /home/manifester/tea4cups/tea4cups /usr/lib/cups/backend/
sudo chmod 700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/tea4cups
Run this command
sudo gedit /etc/cups/tea4cups.conf
Paste this in the bottom of the document
prehook_firstprinter: /usr/bin/lp -d Name of Printer yes the literal name in the printer window -o raw $TEADATAFILE
you will need a new line for every printer you have, so if you want to print to 3 printers you will need three of the above line each having the name of the printer it will be talking to.
save and close everything
open a terminal and run
sudo service cups restart
open a web browser and go to the browser cups controller
http://localhost:631/admin
go to Add Printer
you should see a printer named "tea4CUPSnothing"
If you don't see it go back and press "Find Printers"
it should be there
Change the info of the printer to "Print all" for all type fields"
Press Continue
The generic printer driver works because the printer doesn't actually exist.
Press Continue
Set Defaults
you should be done, go to your printer window on ubuntu and do a test print.
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Hello i was trying to issue some distributed erlang commands such as erl -sname/erl -name and i do not get a response.
If i put . at the end it says syntax error.
If i don't it won't return anything and it will treat it like an unfinished command.
I thought this is only for these commands but it seems there are others that will not do anything like
erl -man <module_name>.
Do i need to set something up to be able to issue erl commands.
P.S OS is Windows 10.
The erl command (with or without -sname) is simply how you run Erlang from a console window like cmd or powershell. On Windows, to get a fully working Erlang shell with command line editing etc, you need to use the special werl executable instead of erl - this is due to how Windows consoles work. Try opening a cmd or powershell windows and see how it works.
If you open the properties of the icon you have used for starting Erlang, you will see that the command it is running is werl (from the Start menu you have to use "more -> open file path" to find the actual icon first). You can edit this and add options like -sname yournodename to the command, or you can create a copy of the icon (e.g. to your desktop) and give it a more suitable name, like "My Erlang node", and then edit its options.
I have a CUPS server setup in Linux.I want to add this printer to my windows programmatically. Manually I am able to add.By searching various forums I found the following command:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "TestPrinter_With_Auth" /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf /r "https://username:pasword#ipp.devCups.com/printers/Printer" /m "HP Color LaserJet 2500 PCL6 Class Driver"
I could install Printer using this command. But I couldn't Print to CUPS as it is not recognizing the credentials. I get access denied.
Any suggestion to achieve this programmatically.
Thanks in Advance
Matt
whenever I switch directory in my terminal, I have to run the command "/bin/bash --login" before I can run rails/rake related commands. If I don't, I get an error saying "the program "rails" can be found in the following packages: ..."
Any advice?
By default some servers do not allow this due to permissions reason. You can place this in
~/.bashrc and it will automatically work when you open a new terminal
As per bash man page.
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists. This
may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile file option
will force bash to read and execute commands from file instead of
~/.bashrc.
When bash is started non-interactively, to run a shell script, for
example, it looks for the variable BASH_ENV in the environment,
expands its value if it appears there, and uses the expanded value as
the name of a file to read and execute. Bash behaves as if the
following command were executed:
if [ -n "$BASH_ENV" ]; then . "$BASH_ENV"; fi but the value of the
PATH variable is not used to search for the file name.
The file is just shell commands. It is typically used to change prompts, set environment variables, and define shell procedures. Traditionally, the file .profile is used for this purpose, but bash has so many extensions that it needs its own startup file for users that want to put bashisms in startup files.
Easy solution:
Just open terminal. GO to Edit menu from terminal navigation bar, Select "Profile Preferences", It will open "edit profile pop-up". Select "Title and Command" button and "check Run Command as login shell"
ctrl + alt + t -> Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Title and Command -> Check Run command as login shell
Close the terminal and open again. Next time you don't need to "/bin/bash --login"
I use to use this script for Windows XP but since we're doing the switchover to 7 I tried to use it on the new images. It seems like it tries but it doesn't work. I have created a 64bit print server and these machines are 64bit which is the only difference. I read up on this and saw there was a GPO that needed to be set to allow this to work. Which was - Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Printers > Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections.
I have tried everything and can't get this to work, it doesn't give me an error or anything. It gives me the prompts for PC name and Printer name, then says 'Adding printer' from the echo command, and just sits there. I can run the command by itself and it doesn't work either....... Please help!
The main thing is that the printer needs to be added from a print server and to the computer for all users as their default.
#echo off
echo PC Name
set /p PC=
echo Printer Name
set /p PRINTER=
ECHO Adding Printer...
\\ghostserver\installs\pstools\psexec \\%PC% -n 3 cmd /c rundll32
printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /ga /c\\%PC% /n\\PRINTSERVER\%PRINTER%
ECHO Restarting Print Spooler...
start /wait sc \\%PC% stop spooler
start /wait sc \\%PC% start spooler
Do you want to install or map the printer from the network ?
First thing to try : map the printer manually on a 7 x64 client. If it fails, your problem is not the batch.
Also try the simple rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /in n\\PRINTSERVER\%PRINTER% with a non-admin non-elevated account on the client to validate the print server configuration.
Is the "Disallow installation of printer using kernel-mode drivers" GPO disabled ? (Have to be)
Check the firewall settings, UAC/elevation configuration, admin access. Run a gpupdate /force and restart the client.
Check the event log on both the client and print server for any errors.
With an admin account (both print server and client), try to push the installation from the print server.
Have you tried to force adding the provider ? /j "LanMan Print Services"
If you have 2008 servers or DCs, you can use Print Management or Group Policy Preferences to deploy printers (easier than bat+psexec+printui.dll).
If you really want to do it via login script, there are also a bunch of tools in Vista/7/8 for print management in %WINDIR%\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts, like this one.
Side note : start /wait is inefficient since sc.exe doesn't wait any response of the service. So, if you stop and start without a pause, chances are the service will not be stopped before the restart and skip the second order. You have to simulate a pause (ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 >nul 2>&1) between stop & start or use a safer script to check the state of the service.
Thank you so much! That fixed it.
Here's my add script:
#echo off
echo PC Name
set /p PC=
echo Printer Name
set /p PRINTER=
echo Adding Printer...
\\servername\installs\pstools\psexec -s -i -accepteula \\%pc% rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /in /y /ga /n\\PRINTSERVER\%PRINTER%
echo Restarting Print Spooler...
start sc \\%pc% stop spooler
pause
start sc \\%pc% start spooler
pause
Here's my remove script:
#echo off
echo PC Name
set /p PC=
echo Printer Name
set /p PRINTER=
echo Adding Printer...
\\servername\installs\pstools\psexec -s -i -accepteula \\%pc% rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /gd /n\\PRINTSERVER\%PRINTER%
echo Restarting Print Spooler...
start sc \\%pc% stop spooler
pause
start sc \\%pc% start spooler
pause