On Tue 18 Jul 2017 at 18:44:55 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2017-07-18 23:17:10, Brian Potkin wrote: > > On Tue 18 Jul 2017 at 14:43:19 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > > > >> On 2017-07-18 17:19:08, Brian Potkin wrote: > >> > >> https://wiki.debian.org/PrintQueuesCUPS#Double_Filtering > >> > >> Reading that section just makes me more confused - while I am sure I > >> could spend the next 15 minutes trying to understand all the subtleties > >> of the CUPS internals, I fail to see how users are expected to learn > >> that stuff just to share printers over the network. > > > > Users are not sharing printers. You (and your server) are. > > I don't get this. I am not a user?
Yes and no. From the point of view of the command 'lp -d ... job' issued directly on the server you are the user. When the command is issued from another machine on the network you (the administrator) are not a user. When you (as administrator) advertise your printers you are said to share them. Users use your shared printers - they do not cause them to be shared. Your generosity is in serving up these printers. > And I would argue this is not a "server": it's my workstation, to which > a printer is connected. I just want to share that printer. That makes your machine a server, Switch your machine off. How happy will your users be? Argue your way out of the complaints you will get. :) > >> I don't understand the trade-offs here: why isn't "raw" processing > >> the default? What's the downside, if it allows automatic remote printing > >> configurations? > > > > The problem appears to be you have a client which isn't doing raw > > processing. Sort them out, > > Is that normal behavior? Or is this a symptom of some (possible > deliberate) misconfiguration on that client? Just a normal misconfiguration. Tell them not to do double filtering. It's evil and completely unnecessary. -- Brian.
