[Solved - of sorts] CUPS printing problems

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 22:22 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2006-22-04 at 19:31 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>> On Saturday 22 April 2006 18:17, Tim Waugh wrote:
>>>>> Why does everyone have the idea that you have to adjust client.conf on
>>>>> all the clients of a print server?
>>>>>
>>>>> You don't need to do that at all -- just enable browsing.  In fact,
>>>>> this is done by default anyway; so just do nothing.
>>>>>
>>>> In theory, maybe.  In practice it didn't work.
>>>
>>> Actually, it will definitely work because that's the way CUPS has been
>>> defined.  I have always configured CUPS that way, and on the client
>>> needed nothing.  As long as the CUPS server is on the same network as
>>> the clients, the clients don't need any further configuration.
>>
>> system-config-printer, then Actions -> Sharing.  There's a checkbox for
>> the client to scan for printers.  It is the default though.
>>
> Look, do what you want but to mix printers coonfigured with
> system-confiog-printers with printers configured with web interface is a
> road to disaster. They just don't work together.

I agree with that.  But nothing in the message I responded to indicated 
that the Web interface was being used.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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