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Can I Force Users to Print Only to Their Default Client Printer?

Yes. SGD allows users to select which printer they print to and this might not always be desirable. You can configure SGD so that users can print only to the default client printer. How you do this depends on whether the client device is a Microsoft Windows client device, or a UNIX, Linux or Mac OS X client device. It is also possible to configure SGD so that all users, or just particular users, can only print to their default client printer.

If users want to change their default printer so they can print to a different printer, they have to log out of SGD, change the default printer and then log in to SGD again.

Microsoft Windows Client Devices

To configure printing globally so that all users can only print to their default printer:

1. In the SGD Administration Console, click the Global Settings » Printing tab.
2. For Client Printing, select the Default Printer option.
3. Click Save.

   Note The change only takes effect for new user sessions.

Alternatively, use the following command:

$ tarantella config edit --printing-mapprinters 1

To configure printing, so that only particular users can print to their default printer:

1. In the SGD Administration Console, click the User Profiles tab and select either an organization, an organizational unit, or a user profile object.

   Note If you configure an organization or organizational unit object, this affects all the users in that organization or organizational unit.

2. Click the Printing tab.
3. If the Client Printing options are grayed out, select the Override Parent's Settings or Override Global Settings check box.
4. For Client Printing, select the Default Printer option.
5. Click Save.

   Note The change only takes effect for new user sessions.

Alternatively, use the following command:

$ tarantella object edit --name obj --mapprinters 1

UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X Client Devices

To configure printing to the default client printer for UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X client devices, there must only be one entry in the [UNIX] section of either the global /opt/tarantella/etc/data/default.printerinfo.txt file or the user-specific $HOME/.tarantella/printerinfo.txt file. The default printer is always the first printer listed in these files.

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