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Configuring printing if you use the Common UNIX Printing System™ (CUPS)

To be able to print using Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS), the following extra configuration is needed:

If you have any LPD clients on your application server, you must enable the CUPS LPD compatibility mode so that CUPS will accept remote print jobs from LPD clients. The CUPS Software Administrators Manual explains how you enable LPD compatibility mode.
On the host on which Secure Global Desktop is installed, enable 'raw printing' in CUPS by editing the /etc/cups/mime.convs and /etc/cups/mime.types files. These files contain comments explaining how to do this (search for 'raw').
Run the prtinstall.en.sh script to install a printer on the UNIX application server. You may have to use the --cups option to indicate that you are using CUPS.
After making these changes, you may have to restart the CUPS daemon.

You must print using /opt/tarantella/bin/lp.

Note LPD print jobs from Windows NT systems fail because there is no way of identifying where the print job originated.

Next steps in configuring Secure Global Desktop printing

Related topics
Introducing Secure Global Desktop printing The tarantella print command The prtinstall.en.sh script