Re: Setting up printers for different clients on one Ledgersmb instance

[Steven Marshall <..hidden..>]

> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Steven Marshall
> <..hidden..> wrote:
>> Does anyone have several companies setup on one instance of Ledgersmb?
>>  Since specifying printers is done in ledgersmb.conf, how can you setup
>> customer specific printers such that each individual customer only sees
>> their own printers on the various screens such as on the Point of Sale/Sales
>> screen without seeing/having access to other customers' printers. It would
>> seem that keeping customer printer information in the company database would
>> be the solution but wanted to run it past everyone to see if anybody has
>> already found a solution for this. I realize I could create a separate
>> Ledgersmb instance per company and use Apache's rewrite module to redirect a
>> company user to their specific instance but that doesn't seem ideal
>> especially if you have many companies that you are hosting.
>
> For the POS module, a lot can be confgured (as light Perl scripting)
> in the pos.conf.pl  Note this has access to the form data and CGI
> environment variables.  In fact the examples show redirecting printer
> output to a network port on the client computer.
>
> We need a good way to think this through.  I don't see an easy way of
> just putting it in defaults for now.  But that's where it needs to
> go.....
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
>
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  I will take a look at
pos.conf.pl

Steven