cups setup for headless

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Jul 8 12:12:29 UTC 2011


On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:41:41 -0400
Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a guide to setting up printer configuration via cmdline?  Or, let's say 
> I have one machine on my lan with printers already configured.  Is there an easy 
> way to transfer that configuration, or a subset of it, to other machines on the 
> lan?

cups has a web interface (in fact cups had a web interface before a lot
of the fancy desktop glue appeared). By default it won't let you remote
connect (default security) but it's intended for remote printer
management and may be handy if the box is headless.

Alan


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