On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:33, Jerry Haltom wrote: > I have a few cups questions. I have a CUPs printer set up successfully > on a central server. The central server can print just fine. Now, I want > 30 or so odd desktops in the office to also use this printer. I had > assumed you were suppose to set up a local queue on each individual > machine, which pointed to the remote queue. However, this is not optimal > at all. I noticed that checking to see what jobs were printing, only > shows items in the local queue! In a workgroup environment, people would > want to be able to see what other people are printer, how long they will > be, or an admin might want to cancel the jobs. > > How/is this possible with CUPs? I really feel it should be, and I'm > missing something important.
I came across this only a day or two ago! On each workstation, edit the file: /etc/cups/client.conf Uncomment the ServerName line, and change it to the IP or hostname of the server. There are options in that file that allow automatic detection of CUPS servers, but I am not familiar with them. Also, if you are running GNOME, it seems you need to install gnome versions of some applications to get the automagical CUPS usage. Eg; apt-get install abiword-gnome Hope this helps. :) Regards Edward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
