Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

["Norman Rieß" <norman@smash-net.org>]

Peter Humphrey schrieb:
> Are you telling me that the printers the server knows of should appear in 
> the client's cups web page automatically? That certainly doesn't happen, 
> which is why I've been trying to tell the client where to find its 
> printers.
>
>   
No the webpage only runs on the server which is connected to the printers.
On that page, you should be able to see all printers connected to that
server. If not, then you have to add them.

The only thing you have to tell the clients is the name of your server
the printers are connected to in the client.conf file.
The applications on the client should see all printers on the server
automatically then.
The cupsd doesn't even need to be started on the clients.
> This looks important (trimming time & date etc.):
> cupsdAcceptClient: 8 from 192.168.2.6:631 (IPv4)
> cupsdReadClient: 8 POST / HTTP/1.1
> cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
> cupsdSendError: 8 code=403 (Forbidden)
> cupsdCloseClient: 8
>
> (The log is taken from the server after running lpstat -a on the client; the 
> IPv4 address shown is the client.)
>
> What kind of authentication data does that mean? User ID confirmation? SSH 
> keys? As far as I know I haven't done anything particular to SSH or SSL. The 
> Gentoo printing guide doesn't mention gnutls or ldap, so I haven't set them 
> up, or even installed them.
>   
>
I assume the printers are not configured correctly on the server.
When i am home from work i will be able to provide some screenshots to
make things clearer.

Regards
Norman