Ah, that was the thing I had not understood with the extra credits that were given. I had thought that functionality had to be added to each desktop so it would act as a print server. sorry.<br><br>Clarify a few things for me :<br>
What exactly was required/meant from/by a print server?<br>I was in the opinion that each laptop was supposed to act as server for the network :P<br>And do we have a powerful server that can act as a print server (which accepts requests from network, assuming we require network printing)? <br>
<br>And thanks, yes, I have been reading that pdf. I was also thinking using python-gnome bindings (which are available) to simulate a gnome tool menu.<br>But this seems better!<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Luke Faraone <span dir="ltr"><luke@faraone.cc></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>True enough, but I hadn't been talking about printing from activities directly at all for the last half of the mails. :<</div>
<div>But for even CUPS to act as a server and accept incoming requests, it would have to excercise freedom to one port atleast, but write a bit of a code so that it accepts requests only from local network which ever was configured on the router. ;) And, we could specify certain pool of ips which are to access the print server. <br>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br>Maybe I'm not understanding you properly: is there a reason that we can't use the standard CUPS daemon on our print server? Are you saying that the individual Sugar desktop should act as a server for *everyone else* in the network? CUPS servers should, imho, be left up to the network administrator to configure; it is beyond the scale that a child would need to perform on their local workstation.<br>
<br>Sugar's role should be to offer configuration of printers that the local system is able to access. You can probably add an extension/plugin to the control panel which wraps Debian's <a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/system-config-printer" target="_blank">system-config-printer</a>, which is written in Python and has (AFAICT) no extra dependancies other than what sugar already requires. Added/autodetected printers can appear in the network view as devices, if you want extra bonus points :)<br>
</div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>-- <br>Luke Faraone<br><a href="http://luke.faraone.cc" target="_blank">http://luke.faraone.cc</a><br>
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