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Printer administration - Mac OS Tutorial
From the course: macOS for IT Administrators
Printer administration
- Apple's underlying print system is CUPS, which is an open source printer management system for UNIX Systems that happens to also be maintained by Apple. But while CUPS is the subject of the rest of this movie, there's one important thing I want to teach you first. If you have standard unprivileged users who start trouble tickets because they can't control the printers on their Mac's, the solution is not necessarily to just make them admins. It is instead to make them print admins by adding everyone on the computer to the LP admin group, with this command. With that group membership, users can add and remove printers, clear bad print jobs, all on their own. If you want to go beyond that to configure printing at the command-line for your users, CUPS allows you to configure advanced features on a Mac OS system through command-line tools, that are not only available over SSH or in ARD, but are also controllable via shell…
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Sidecar2m 19s
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Key commands and shortcuts2m 58s
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Network ports you need to know4m 5s
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Reading and collecting logs1m 38s
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Printer administration2m 40s
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Administer gatekeeper1m 46s
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