[Solved - of sorts] CUPS printing problems

[Matthew Saltzman]

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.

>
> Regards,
>
> Ranbir
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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