accessing a remote CUPS server

[Ekkard Gerlach]

* Wolfgang Jeltsch schrieb:

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> of the CUPS server. All I want to do is to fetch the list of printers from the 
> server, and send jobs to arbitrary printers via the server.

1. insert the ipp:// -queues of the server to your /etc/cups/printers.conf. 
   It's ONE cp-command. 
   Change the IP of the queues to your Server if the printer are not 
   connected by network directly - if you want.

2. copy all ppd-Files of the Server /etc/cups/ppd/* to your PC. 
   It's one cp-command. 

3. restart cups. 

Where is the problem? Its not much work. 
Okay, some printers need prorietary wrapper .. like some samsung or minolta 
printers. Thats a little bit more complicated. Perhaps you send pure 
postscript files to the printer queue of the server. As disatvantage you 
don't have printer options available on your client. 

Ekkard