CUPS odd behaviour

[Chiu, PCM (Peter)]

Does anyone know the correct way of setting up remote printing using CUPS?

On a RH EL 3 Update 2 system A, I have enabled CUPS and configured some
print queues. They work okay.

On another RH EL3 Update 2 system B, I tried to enable this system as a
print client and print using the print queues set up on Box A.

On Box B,
lpc status  returns an empty list

So I invoked the web interface and after entering the root account details,
I can see a list of print queues set up on server A. 

Still lpc status returns an empty list

But lpq -Pqueue1 at A

does show a response from A and reveals the queue status.
(I cannot tell whether the use of the web interface has any bearing to
this.)

In order to allow a more user-friendly and transparant print queue syntax, I
followed the admin manual to modify client.conf to add

ServerName A

Now both lpq -Pqueue and
         lpq -Pqueue at A fail with unknown destination

So I removed the ServerName A entry in client.conf.

Now, lpc status returns a list of print queues, apart from the class queue.

So, I would like to know the correct steps to enable remote printing using
CUPS.


Furthermore, on the client B

lpq/lpr -Pclass-queue at A

works, but

lpq -Pclass-queue fails with cleint-error-not-found

whereas non-class queues work okay.