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Re: How to set up CUPS client



On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:35:08AM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> For the benefit of anyone else trying this, you don't have to touch
> anything on the client machine(s). Just the default install of the basic
> CUPS packages is needed on the client. The CUPS daemon running on the
> client will then automatically discover the printer(s) on the local
> network, and the printcap file for the remote printer will show up at
> /var/run/cups/printcap on the client. At that point, the remote printer
> will be available to your applications to print from.


What's wrong with just putting the servers name in
/etc/cups/client.conf?

There's no need to be running another daemon ... all you need in
debian to use cups on another server is cupsys-client and it's
depends.

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