Use of Cups printing in a home network.

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Jul 3 18:35:05 UTC 2006


Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> The clients should have the original default cupsd.conf and
>>> client.conf files (they need nothing done to them for browsing
>>> to work).
> 
> Anne Wilson:
>> Your comment about the client.conf file surprises me, as I have always
>> had to add the server name in there - though nothing else.
> 
> If you want a client to use a particular server, you enter its address
> into the client.conf file.  If you want your client to use whatever
> printers are offered to the network, then leave it as-is (no particular
> client written into the client.conf file).  The server should announce
> itself to the network every 30 seconds, and all the clients should keep
> note of what's available to them (multiple printers, and/or print
> servers).
> 
> This does require the server to be set up to allow browsing.  It's not
> by default, according to the documentation.  And, as it appears to me,
> it doesn't quite work as you'd expect it to, as far as @LOCAL as a
> BrowseAddress is concerned (that sets the address that the server
> broadcasts its availability to).
> 
> Those two factors are probably the spanner in the works.
> 
> At some stage, it worked for me, in the past.  I don't know why it
> stopped.  I don't recall changing the BrowseAddress parameter, though I
> do know that some printer configuration tools will re-arrange the
> configuration file.  I seriously dislike how they remove options set in
> their proper places in the file, and just tacks them onto the end.  I'm
> remembering to keep a back-up, this time around.
> 
> The other thing that REALLY IRRITATES me about printing, is how I'll set
> the printer to be A4 paper, as a system setting.  But each and every
> application ignores that and requires hand configuring from US Letter to
> A4.  For heck's sake, start off with what *I've* configured as the
> default.  Bloody fool programmers!!!  I can't even buy US-Letter sized
> Australia without seriously hunting around for it.
> 
By the same token, A4 paper is made out of pure unobtainium here in the 
states.  Its a genuine, certified, PITA to have to change the default to 
a local choice for every print job started.  PLEASE make it so that 
these choices are universally remembered once chosen.

-- 
Cheers, Gene




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