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Re: CUPS config. under debian



<quote who="Neal Lippman">

> My question: I have cupsd running on the mandrake box on my LAN, which
> now  functions as my NFS and SMB server, while the debian box is my
> workstation.  To use cups for printing on the workstation, should I ALSO
> have cupds running  on the workstation? Should it be configured to try to
> find the printer  available through the cupsd instance on the server, or
> should it be  connecting directly to the printer (which is on the
> network, not attached to  any specific computer) via ipp?
>
> Any help appreciated; I cannot figure this out from the cups
> documentation.  Configuring cups to browse the network for available
> printers did not work,  even though I followed the cups docs exactly in
> setting that up...


what i do is run the cups-lpd process on the server(in my case its
freebsd 4.4) and install lpd or lprng on the clients and print using
lpd, thats the easiest for me(and most compadible since i don't have
to have cups on the client).

nate




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