Printing via CUPS and attaching files to labfolder logbooks

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Follow this guide to set up CUPS virtual printers to be able to print webpages and pictures/files (PDF, PNG, JPG, PS) to one of labfolder's logbooks, thus, creating a new entry with an attachment. If you are an admin of the labfolder VM read the section :ref:`section_cups_admin`. Users of labfolder read the section :ref:`section_cups_user`.

.. _section_cups_admin:

Set up CUPS as labfolder admin

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First, you need to install CUPS on the virtual machine that runs labfolder::

	sudo apt-get install cups cups-client cups-bsd

Next, configure ``/etc/cups/cupsd.conf``::

	# Sample configuration file for the CUPS scheduler.  See "man cupsd.conf" for a

	# complete description of this file.

	# Log general information in error_log - change "warn" to "debug"

	# for troubleshooting...

	LogLevel debug

	# Deactivate CUPS' internal logrotating, as we provide a better one, especially

	# LogLevel debug2 gets usable now

	MaxLogSize 0

	# Administrator user group...

	SystemGroup lpadmin

	ServerAdmin <name>@fhi-berlin.mpg.de

	HostNameLookups On

	ServerAlias *

	# Only listen for connections from the local machine.

	Listen lftest.rz-berlin.mpg.de:631

	Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

	# Show shared printers on the local network.

	Browsing Off

	BrowseOrder allow,deny

	BrowseAllow all

	BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS dnssd

	BrowseAddress @LOCAL

	# Default authentication type, when authentication is required...

	DefaultAuthType Basic

	# Web interface setting...

	WebInterface Yes

	# Restrict access to the server...

	<Location />

	  Satisfy All

	  Allow localhost

	  Allow 141.14.*

	  Allow 172.16.*

	  Allow 192.*

	  Allow all

	  # Allow shared printing and remote administration...

	  Order allow,deny

	  Allow all

	</Location>

	# Restrict access to the admin pages...

	<Location /admin>

	  Order deny,allow

	  Satisfy All

	  AuthType Basic

	  Require user @SYSTEM

	  Deny All

	  Allow localhost

	  Allow 141.14.*

	  Allow 172.16.*

	</Location>

	# Restrict access to configuration files...

	<Location /admin/conf>

	  Order deny,allow

	  AuthType Default

	  Require user @SYSTEM

	  Satisfy All

	  Require user root

	  Deny All

	  Allow 127.0.0.1

	  Allow 141.14.*

	  Allow 172.16.*

	</Location>

	# Set the default printer/job policies...

	<Policy default>

	  ... # probably as in the original

	</Policy>

Get the package for creating new printers from git::

	labfolder@lftest:~$ git clone https://github.molgen.mpg.de/weiher/cupsPrinters

	labfolder@lftest:~$ ls

	cupsPrinters  labfolder

The only file you need to adapt is ``newPrinter.sh``. It is not a must but it is suggested to name the printers like the projects. For example, the FEL projects *operating* and *installation* could be placed at ``.../printers/FEL/operating`` and ``.../printers/FEL/installation``. Execute the script with sudo rights::

	labfolder@lftest:~/cupsPrinters$ sudo ./newPrinter.sh

To prevent ``DENIED`` errors from apparmor install and set the following and restart the CUPS server::

	$ sudo apt-get install apparmor-utils apparmor-profiles

	$ sudo aa-complain cupsd

	$ sudo service cups restart

In case you need to debug some logfiles can be found here: */var/log/syslog*, */var/log/cups/error_log* and */var/log/cups/acces_log*

One last change is that you need to once add a user named *Printer Print* (firstname lastname) to the labfolder database. This can be done manually inside the DB by this command::

	$ mysql -u root -p

	Enter password:

	...

	mysql> use labfolder;

	mysql> INSERT INTO user (email, password, firstname, lastname, signupTimestamp, maxStorage) VALUES ('printer@fhi-berlin.mpg.de', '91a13f2aba4a35b00c35dfacadd1d75f4a5171dfa7a465fca9c40e6b007ce982', 'Printer', 'Print', '2018-03-21 10:54:00', '10000000');

.. _section_cups_user:

Printing to labfolder projects

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The last thing you need to do is to set up a printer *operating* on your local machine. In Ubuntu Gnome hit Alt+F2 keys and enter ``system-config-printer``. In this printer config interface add a new printer *operating* as follows:

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