Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser

[Manuel McLure <manuel@mclure.org>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Manuel,
>    Thanks very much. This has been helpful. However what we're finding
> is to completely use lpstat and lpoptions on printers out on the
> network, as well as the printer admin app within Gnome, we must have
> cupsd running locally. Other than that everything now works. Granted
> we cannot 'manage' the remote printers from our local cupsd
> localhost:631, but we are allowed to look at the Job Queue on the
> remote printers using CUPS on the local machine. I suspect that will
> be suffucient for our needs.

Glad it's working for you. I'd be interested in knowing what lpoptions 
aren't available without a local CUPS daemon, though. I've had no issues 
printing using just client.conf, although my setup is KDE-centric rather 
than Gnome-centric.


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