accessing a remote CUPS server

Wolfgang Jeltsch fmp0d6sw at acme.softbase.org
Mon Sep 14 12:36:17 CEST 2009


Am Montag, 14. September 2009 12:24:12 schrieb Cristian Tibirna:
> On Monday 14 September 2009 04:29:17 Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > So how do I make KDE 4 use the CUPS server of our department instead of
> > my local CUPS server?
>
> Try using the system configuration tools of your linux distribution to add
> a remote printer to your queues.
>
> E.g. for most openSUSE versions and variants, you can use yast.
>
> For some distributions, the kubuntu developed system-printer-configuration
> tool is included. It is a PyKDE application that should allow you to
> configure remote printers.

Hello Cristian,

do you mean, I should add all remote printers I want to use by hand? This is 
not what I want to do. I want to tell KDEPrint to use a remote CUPS server 
instead of the local one so that I can automatically access all printers 
provided by this server.

Best wishes,
Wolfgang


More information about the kde-print mailing list