[Alt School Linux] Linux questions
P. Robert Marino
[email protected]
Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:14:27 -0400
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Phil Beder wrote:
> Group accounts and the Linux server
> I need some good strategies for students to submit work to their
> teachers, and for teachers to pass out assignments to their students.
> I thought this could be done with group accounts and not local mail
> (which I have not yet delved into).
> Should I just put this out as an open question and study what you all
> have done or would you rather I harness you with what I'm trying to
> do, which might be a flawed strategy to begin with.
>
> linux printing
> I took a visit to linuxprinting.org to get drivers for some printers.
> It said the driver/filter for this printer was the "laserjet" and that
> this driver/filter worked for 22 other printers. I retrieved a page
> for the laserjet that offered me several files for my very old IBM
> 4019 Laser printer, none of which were called laserjet. I could
> download: a PPD, an old CUPS PPD, a Description file, and a PDQ
> Driver. Which is the true driver. ??
> Then, from what I gather, I need to reference the driver in the
> printcap file?
1) assignment posting
in concord we are using a intranet webserver for posting assignments all
you nead is apache installed on your linux box and each teacher neads to
have a public_html directory in their home directory this is simple
because almost every distrobution of liinux is setup to do this by default
2) group accounts
as far as group accounts go yes you can do group accounts to manage
this you can even go a sep further and use macros in samba and netatalk
to make them more transparent however as of this time i have not writen
a schema or utillities for doing so i do plan to for version 0.0.3 or
version 0.0.4 of the account manager i have not dicided which yet if you
would like to help me plan out a schema for doing this I would could use
the help pleese email me at [email protected] to help me with
the planing
3) printers
first of all cups is new the first stable release is only 2 years
old. if you are using cups as your printing system the driver is a PPD
file.
PDQ is an old lexmark driver format dont use it, it wont work. there
are a few things you should know the new version of the lexmark drivers
for mac and windows use PPD files as a mater of fact you can download
the latest PPD from lexmarks site here
<http://drivers.lexmark.com/drivers.nsf/printer+driver/F18EB01AC454976585256952006E93AA?OpenDocument&4019>
now for configureing cups go to www.cups.org not to linuxprinting.org
if you have any further questions dont hesitate to drop me an email
good luck
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Phil Beder wrote:<br>
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cite="[email protected]"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4">Group accounts and the Linux server<br>
I need some good strategies for students to submit work to their teachers,
and for teachers to pass out assignments to their students. I thought this
could be done with group accounts and not local mail (which I have not yet
delved into). <br>
Should I just put this out as an open question and study what you all have
done or would you rather I harness you with what I’m trying to do, which
might be a flawed strategy to begin with. <br>
<br>
linux printing<br>
I took a visit to linuxprinting.org to get drivers for some printers. It said
the driver/filter for this printer was the “laserjet” and that this driver/filter
worked for 22 other printers. I retrieved a page for the laserjet that offered
me several files for my very old IBM 4019 Laser printer, none of which were
called laserjet. I could download: a PPD, an old CUPS PPD, a Description
file, and a PDQ Driver. Which is the true driver. ??<br>
Then, from what I gather, I need to reference the driver in the printcap file?<br>
</font></blockquote>
1) assignment posting<br>
<br>
in concord we are using a intranet webserver for posting assignments all
you nead is apache installed on your linux box and each teacher neads to
have a public_html directory in their home directory this is simple because
almost every distrobution of liinux is setup to do this by default<br>
<br>
<br>
2) group accounts<br>
as far as group accounts go yes you can do group accounts to manage this
you can even go a sep further and use macros in samba and netatalk to make
them more transparent however as of this time i have not writen a schema
or utillities for doing so i do plan to for version 0.0.3 or version 0.0.4
of the account manager i have not dicided which yet if you would like to
help me plan out a schema for doing this I would could use the help pleese
email me at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> to help me with the planing<br>
<br>
3) printers <br>
first of all cups is new the first stable release is only 2 years old.
if you are using cups as your printing system the driver is a PPD file.<br>
PDQ is an old lexmark driver format dont use it, it wont work. there are
a few things you should know the new version of the lexmark drivers for mac
and windows use PPD files as a mater of fact you can download the latest
PPD from lexmarks site <a
href="http://drivers.lexmark.com/drivers.nsf/printer+driver/F18EB01AC454976585256952006E93AA?OpenDocument&4019">here</a>
<br>
now for configureing cups go to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.cups.org">www.cups.org</a> not to linuxprinting.org<br>
<br>
if you have any further questions dont hesitate to drop me an email<br>
<br>
good luck<br>
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