ITaP Printing with Linux?

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I have both the Purdue VPN and the Career Account folder set up fine on linux. However, I cannot for the life of me connect to itap-printing. Does anyone have this working and can share what they did? (I know I can email my print jobs, but I’d like to print double-sided. If this is possible without manually adding the printer I’d love to know how.) Thanks.

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You have to be on-campus or connected to the VPN first of all. Then you can add one of the following URIs with “Generic PostScript Printer” as the model:

  • smb://UserName:Password@ONEPURDUE/wpvapppcprt02.itap.purdue.edu/itap-printing. The authentication information here is more explicit and if you use a distro that has samba support built into CUPS then I’d recommend this option. Some distros also have system-config-printer packaged and if you install that you can remove the login information from the URI (thus smb://wpvapppcprt02.itap.purdue.edu/itap-colorprinting) and it’ll prompt you for username / password on each print.
  • lpd://wpvapppcprt02.itap.purdue.edu:515/itap-printing?reserve=any. I’m not sure how it does authentication (maybe using the VPN / PAL login info) but it magically works.

You can replace itap-printing with itap-colorprinting as necessary. Double-sided printing is supported.

Both of these options work for ECN printing too, you just need to change the server address (e.g. lpd://wpvapppccoe06.itap.purdue.edu:515/frnyg023p1).

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not sure what you’re trying to print but you can email your files to [email protected] or [email protected] and you can print that way.

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To add to this, you can use SSHFS to connect to your career account drive if you’re on campus / using the VPN. For example you would add [email protected]:/home/campus/UserName to /etc/fstab with type fuse.sshfs and probably user,noauto,_netdev,reconnect,idmap=user,default_permissions and identityfile=/path/to/ssh.key if you use key-based authentication. Then you mount as your normal user and unmount using root.

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I know, that’s in my post; not sure if that supports double sided printing or not.

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Thanks for the help, this is exactly what I needed.

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mine always print double sided when i send to printbw!! not sure why. maybe try with a gag document first to see if it does?

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No problem. Note that I made a typo in the samba URI, there is no exclamation point after the password (corrected above).