On Thursday 06 November 2014 14:26:38 Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Thursday 06 November 2014 13:20:00 Neal Becker wrote: > > I just got a google cloud enabled printer. Is there a _client_ for > > fedora to work via cups? Thanks. > > > > -- > > -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it > > I've done this on a couple of workstations, both printing to a remote > Google Cloud printer and active as a server to allow a traditional printer > over Google Cloud Print. > > I can't remember how to do it, but Googling "Google Cloud Print Linux" is > all I did to get started. > > You will need to install Google Chrome too as this is what's used for both > the client and server options. > > Gary Just had a quick look at one of by boxes and found the following which I used to set up a traditional printer as a cloud printer. The bit you want is the other way round, to be able to print to an already configured GoogleCloud printer. For this you need to install the following RPM [root@lou ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i cloud cupscloudprint-20140814-1.noarch Not sure which repository that wa from but may have been from the Google one shown below. [root@lou ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo [google-chrome] name=google-chrome baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 [root@lou ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i google google-chrome-beta-39.0.2171.19-1.x86_64 [root@lou ~]# ll Downloads/ total 57512 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1722 Jul 2 17:05 generate_cloudprint_config.py.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58888025 Jul 2 17:01 google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm [root@lou ~]# (There was a problem with the stable version which is why I then removed it and installed the beta version. Can't remember what the problem was though. Then under the user I am using for the service (gary) I did wget http://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/chromeos/docs/admin/en/generate_cloudprint_config.py.zip unzip generate_cloudprint_config.py.zip chmod 770 generate_cloudprint_config.py ./generate_cloudprint_config.py Once the printers were set up an working I created the service unit file and started it. [root@lou ~]# cat /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/googleCloudPrint.service [Unit] Description=Google Chrome running headless as Cloud Print Server After=network.target [Service] Type=simple User=gary Group=gary WorkingDirectory=/home/gary/.GoogleCloudPrint ExecStart=/usr/bin/google-chrome --type=service --enable-cloud-print-proxy --no-service-autorun --log-level 2 --enable-logging=stderr --user-data-dir=/home/gary/.GoogleCloudPrint Restart=always StandardInput=null StandardOutput=syslog StandardError=inherit SyslogIdentifier=CloudPrint SyslogFacility=lpr SyslogLevel=err PrivateTmp=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target [root@lou ~]# -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
