CUPS PDF Printer that prompts for save location?

MasterC · 01-04-2008, 02:46 PM

Hello,

I have a CUPS PDF printer setup that saves files to either:
A set location
or
The user's home directory
This would be nice but our users don't have a home directory; they are authenticating through Samba but don't have actual accounts on the server.

I could possibly go through and setup a PDF share that all files go to, maybe even extend that to USERNAME/PDF and then require authentication to get to the files, but that seems like a more difficult solution (and time consuming) than simply have a prompt asking where to save the file.

Is there something out there that prompts for the save location instead of having a hard-coded value?

Thanks!

-Chad

ramram29 · 01-04-2008, 03:24 PM

You can install PDFCreator locally on the computer and it will prompt you to save to a directory. CUPS-PDF is for the server to print then dump on a server directory only.

MasterC · 01-11-2008, 01:34 PM

Thanks!

-Chad

Tinkster · 01-11-2008, 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MasterC

Hello,

I have a CUPS PDF printer setup that saves files to either:
A set location
or
The user's home directory
This would be nice but our users don't have a home directory; they are authenticating through Samba but don't have actual accounts on the server.

I could possibly go through and setup a PDF share that all files go to, maybe even extend that to USERNAME/PDF and then require authentication to get to the files, but that seems like a more difficult solution (and time consuming) than simply have a prompt asking where to save the file.

Is there something out there that prompts for the save location instead of having a hard-coded value?

Thanks!

-Chad

It's been a few years, and I don't have the script handy anymore,
but I recall that I used a way to e-Mail the generated document
to the user ... there's a way to get the user name from a variable
via samba and script that. Might be worth evaluating?

Cheers,
Tink