[KLUG Members] questions on cups & setting up a terminal

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> 1. I have a desktop set up and I installed cups and got the printer 
> working. I can print just fine from GEdit. However, my other 
> applications such as firefox do not see a printer installed. The just 
> don't even see it, so I can't select it. I have tried from Firefox, Zend 
> Studio, and some other mics apps. Any idea why it would work in GEdit 
> and not in other apps on the same system?

Only applications linked to the CUPS library will automativally
enumerate printers;  this includes Open Office and most GNOME
applications.  Most other applications do not, although it may depend on
your distribution;  FireFox on SuSe DOES enumerate CUPS printers while
the FireFox I tried on Fedora does not.

> I wonder what resources you can point me toward for locking down a gnome 
> desktop so that students cannot change firefox settings such as the 
> homepage and will auto mount floppies or cds that are put in the drive. 
> (I don't want the students to have to issue mount commands...I've always 
> just mounted things by hand)

SuSe automatically mounts are removable media under /media

The ability to lock down desktops is still very primitive.

> 3. I have been trying on and off to get a email server up using postfix, 
> imap, spam filtering, AV, and web based email but I always run into 
> blockages. I have about 7 different books I have bought in the process, 
> but I just need to go somewhere and get taught this stuff. I just can't 
> seem to fit in all of the misc pieces to get this up and running. Can 
> you suggest somewhere I can get the training for this. I am in Flint, 
> but I am willing to do about anything at this point to go somewhere I 
> can just ask a question when I get stuck and have someone point out 
> pitfalls I am going to run into before I spend a whole weekend trying to 
> figure it out.

Get basic mail serving working first, recieving and sending.  Then go
back and add AV/spam features.  Otherwise you're biting off too much in
one pass.  Feel free to ask specific questions here.