CUPS Administrative Guide. A practical tutorial to installing, managing, and securing this powerful printing system - Helion

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Autor: Ankur Shah
Tytuł oryginału: CUPS Administrative Guide. A practical tutorial to installing, managing, and securing this powerful printing system
ISBN: 9781847192592
stron: 248, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2008-09-30
Księgarnia: Helion

Cena książki: 129,00 zł

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CUPS Administrative Guide
- Table of Contents
- CUPS Administrative Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewer
- Preface
  - What This Book Covers
  - What You Need for This Book
  - Conventions
  - Reader Feedback
  - Customer Support
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Introduction
  - Overview of the CUPS Features
  - History of Printing in UNIX
  - Printing with Personal Computers
  - Evolution of CUPS as a Printing System
    - Architecture of CUPS
    - Network Printing
  - CUPS Features
    - Support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
    - Compatibility with Other Print Systems
    - Support for Web Interface
    - Modular Architecture
    - Support of Postscript Printer Description Drivers (PPDs) in CUPS
  - Summary
- 2. Building and Installing CUPS
  - Downloading Source Code
    - Compiling CUPS
  - Installing the Software
  - Installing a Binary Distribution
    - - Building RPMs
      - Creating Binary Distribution with EPM
    - Installing a Portable Distribution
    - Installing an RPM Distribution
    - Installing CUPS from a Debian Distribution
    - Subversion Access
      - Compiling from Subversion
    - Running the Software
  - Installing CUPS Using the Package Manager on Linux
  - Testing CUPS
  - Summary
- 3. Printer Management
  - Printer Drivers
    - PostScript Printer Description (PPD) Drivers
    - Non-PostScript Printers
    - Ghostscript Built-In
      - Filter
      - CUPS Raster
      - Ink Jet Server (IJS) Plug-in
      - Uniprint
      - CUPS DDK
      - Foomatic-RIP
    - Installing PPD
  - Managing Printer through the Command Line
    - Basic Command for Adding the Printer
    - Managing Printers from the Command-Line
    - Deleting Printers
    - Setting the Default Printer
    - Starting and Stopping Printers
    - Accepting and Rejecting Print Jobs
    - Checking Printer Status
    - Setting Quotas on a Printer
    - Restricting User Access to a Printer
    - Printing Banner Pages
    - Some More Printer and CUPS-Specific Commands
  - Managing Print Jobs through Command Line
    - Submitting Files for Printing
      - Checking the Status of Print Jobs
    - Choosing a Printer
    - Setting Printer Options
    - Printing the Output of a Program
    - Printing Multiple Copies
    - Checking the Printer Status
    - Canceling a Print Job
    - Moving a Print Job
  - Managing Printers using the CUPS Web Interface
    - Administration
    - Adding a New Printer
    - Managing Jobs
    - Find New Printers
      - Documentation
  - Summary
- 4. Managing Multiple Printers at a Time
  - Configuring Printer Classes
    - Features and Advantages
    - Implicit Class
  - Managing Printer Classes Through Command-Line
    - - Adding a Printer to a Class
      - Removing a Printer from a Class
      - Removing a Class
  - Managing Printer Classes Through CUPS Web Interface
    - Adding a New Printer Class
      - Stop Class
      - Reject Jobs
      - Unpublished Printer
      - Cancel All Jobs
      - Delete Class
      - Modifying a Class
      - Setting up Printer Options for Class
      - Printing a Test Page for a Printer Class
      - Setting a Printer Class as Default
      - Set Allowed Users
      - Nested Printer Classes
  - Summary
- 5. CUPS Server Management
  - System Requirement
  - Configuration Files
  - Classes Directives
    - Accepting
    - Printer
    - Class
    - DefaultClass
    - AllowUser
    - DenyUser
    - Info
    - Location
    - JobSheets
    - KLimit
    - PageLimit
    - QuotaPeriod
    - State
    - StateMessage
  - Client Directives
    - ServerName
    - Encryption
  - Server Directives
    - Editing the cupsd.conf File Via the Web Interface
  - Important Directives of cupsd.conf
    - Server Identity
      - ServerAdmin
      - ServerName
    - Server Options
      - LogLevel
    - Network Options
      - Listen
      - Port
    - Browsing Options
      - Browsing
      - BrowseOrder
      - BrowseAllow
      - BrowseDeny
      - BrowseProtocols
      - BrowseAddress
      - BrowseShortNames
    - Security Options
      - SystemGroup
      - AuthType
      - Location
    - ImplicitClasses
    - ImplicitAnyClasses
  - Printer Directives
    - Accepting
    - Printer
    - DefaultPrinter
    - AllowUser
    - DenyUser
    - DeviceURI
    - Info
    - Location
    - JobSheets
    - KLimit
    - PageLimit
    - QuotaPeriod
    - State
    - StateMessage
  - Concept of Operation Policies
  - Summary
- 6. Client Setup
  - Setting up a CUPS Client
    - Print Queues
      - Manual Configuration of Print Queues
      - Automatic Configuration of Print Queues
        
        BrowseTimeout
        
        BrowseInterval
        
        BrowsePoll
        
        BrowseAddress
      - CUPS Servers Communication with Clients
        
        Single Print Server Configuration
        
        Multiple Print Servers Across Different Subnets
      - Load Balancing and Failsafe Operation
      - UNIX/Linux Client
        
        Adding a Printer
    - LPD Clients
      - xinetd
      - inetd
    - Windows Clients
      - Printing with Samba
    - Printing with Other Systems
      - Printing with LPD Servers (lpd)
      - Printing with Mac OS X 10.2 or later
      - Printing with Windows Servers (smb)
      - LPD
      - Samba
        
        Configuring Printer using the Command Line Interface (lpadmin)
        
        Configuring Printer using the Web-Based Interface
  - Summary
- 7. Quota Management
  - Setting up Quota in CUPS
    - job-k-limit
    - job-page-limit
    - job-quota-period
    - User Restrictions
    - Error Messages
  - Correct and Incorrect Accounting
  - Overview of the page_log file
  - Flaws of the CUPS Quota system
  - Other Accounting Tools
    - PyKota
      - Features of PyKota:
      - Checking Prerequisites and Downloading Application
      - Installation
  - Summary
- 8. Monitoring CUPS
  - Using the lpstat Command
  - Overview of the access_log File
  - Overview of the error_log File
    - How SNMP Helps Search for Network Printers
  - Overview of snmp.conf
    - Address
    - Community
    - DebugLevel
    - DeviceURI
    - HostNameLookups
    - MaxRunTime
  - How SNMP Behaves in the CUPS Web Interface
    - Overview of Basic Debugging in CUPS-SNMP
  - Overview of mailto.conf
    - - The Cc Directive
        
        The From Directive
        
        The Sendmail Directive
        
        The SMTPServer Directive
        
        The Subject Directive
  - Monitoring SNMP Printers
    - Downloading and Installing Cacti
      - Features of Cacti
    - Configuring an SNMP Printer with Cacti
  - Summary
- 9. File Typing and Filtering
  - ArchitectureCUPS Filtering System
  - An Overview of the mime.types file
  - An Overview of the mime.convs file
  - Adding Filetypes and Filters
  - Overview of Filter in CUPS
    - An Overview of pre-filters
    - An Overview of the pstops Filter
    - An Overview of the pstoraster Filter
    - An Overview of the imagetoraster Filter
    - An Overview of the imagetops Filter
    - Rasterto and other Printer-Specific Filters
    - Foomatic and cupsomatic Filters
    - Additional Filter Functionality
      - Raw Printing
      - Application/octet-stream Printing
      - PostScript Printer Descriptions (PPDs) for non-PostScript Printers
      - Cupsomatic/foomatic-rip versus Native CUPS Printing
      - Examples for Filtering Chains
        
        Example1
      - Printing with Interface Scripts
      - An Overview of the CUPS Printing Process
      - Writing your own Filter or Printer Driver
  - Summary
- 10. Security
  - Encryption Support in CUPS
    - Configuring SSL during CUPS Installation
    - Encryption Support
      - SSLListen
      - SSLPort
      - Encryption
  - Access Control
    - Address-Based Access Control
  - Authentication Support
    - Authentication using Password
      - Basic Authentication
      - Digest Authentication
    - Authentication using Certificates
      - System and Group Authentication
        
        SystemGroup
    - Kerberos Authentication
      - Configuring Kerberos on the System
      - Configuring CUPS to use Kerberos Authentication
    - Protection from Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
      - MaxClients
        
        MaxClientsPerHost
        
        LimitRequestBody
      - CUPS Release Notes
  - Summary
- Index