Cups hoisted me on my own petard.

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Tue Feb 14 15:56:28 UTC 2006


On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:18:19AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:14:06AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> >>>After explaining to others how to use cups to print through a print
> >>>server and print to a local printer I have come up with a "situation".
> ...
> >>>Well that is a little surprising. Can anyone explain this or give me
> >>>another solution to allow me to print to both types of printers?
> 
> >>A question probably better asked on the cups mailing list(s).
> 
> >That is probably true but I hoped that someone one the Fedora List
> >had built a system that had both local and remote printers and could
> >give me a tip. 
> 
> Fair enough, here's what works for me, edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:
> #
> # BrowsePoll: poll the named server(s) for printers
> #
> BrowsePoll <remote_cups_server>
> 
> -- Rex
You mean if I have that line in the cupsd.conf file of the client I
will be able to Browse printers from a remote server as well as access
my local printer on the client?
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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