adding printers via command line

Greetings Fellow Mac Admins,

I have been trying to add a new LPD printer to a bunch of Macs via
command line so as not to interfere with user sessions.

I tried:
1) The Linux approach: Adding the PPD file to /etc/cups/ppd;
editing /etc/cups/printers.conf; restarting cupsd
        This appeared to add a printer, but that queue fails to send a data
file to the LPD print server. The server log says:
        "Job ID 542 has no files! Canceling it!"

2) The lpadmin approach: lpadmin -p queuename -E -v lpd://server/
queue -m ppdfile
        This also appeared to add a printer, but again the queue fails to
send a data file to the LPD print server.

When I add the printer using the Mac OS GUI, it works.

Can anyone share their successful method of command line printer
addition on a Mac? Am I missing some plist entry? I already tried
repairing permissions after adding the printers via methods 1) and 2).

Thanks!
Bill

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Bill Boyd
System Administrator UCB Astronomy
bboyd_at_astro.berkeley.edu

 
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Received on Wed Nov 19 2008 - 11:49:11 PST