Duplicating CUPS Printer installation

[Tim]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 16:48 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html?TOPIC=References&QUERY=#UseNetworkDefault
> 
> I don't understand this man entry.
> Where exactly are you meant to put the command "UseNetworkDefault yes"?
> I take it from the title that it is meant to go in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf .
> But on the client or the server?

"The UseNetworkDefault directive controls whether the client will use a
network/remote printer as a default printer. If enabled, the default
printer of a server is used as the default printer on a client. When
multiple servers are advertising a default printer, the client's default
printer is set to the first discovered printer, or to the implicit class
for the same printer available from multiple servers."

That, to me, reads as a configuration you're doing for your client.  An
option for whether your client will use the default given to it from a
server (presuming a server with more than printer on offer), or whether
you'll have to choose your own default.

However, the default was yes, so you shouldn't have to do anything to
set it to yes.

> And where in cupsd.conf ?

Since it doesn't also state that it must occur within a particular
section, like some other examples did, I might presume that it goes
outside of a section, and will apply as a general server parameter.

> I thought the only information needed on the client 
> was in /etc/cups/printers.conf ?

The only configuration needed is what you need to do...  I've twiddled
with cupds.conf and client.conf before.  But in many cases, you won't
have to do anything on the client.  It'll just work with what the server
gives it.

> Ps CUPS documentation is very, very bad.

Obtuse, definitely.

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