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

[Richard Harding]

Ok, couple of questions. All of these are on Debian Sarge RC with Gnome 
2.6.

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?

2. I am thinking of testing out a linux machine in a student PC lab I 
have. It currently holds 3 HP terminals and 5 Win98 Desktops that 
connect to a Win2k Terminal Server on a domain. I want to set up the 
linux machine to be a base station with firefox and a printer installed 
on it as well as have a connection to the terminal server. I want to use 
firefox because I can set up a couple of proxy connections with the 
proxy switcher extension for them to use. (They need to change the proxy 
to connect to the MSU library resources for instance)

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)

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.

Thanks for the help on these everyone. I keep trying to bring in more 
and more Linux but being a one man IT team I often get stuck.

Rick