[Solved - of sorts] CUPS printing problems

[Aaron Konstam]

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.
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