Re: Debian Sarge printing ?.
On (12/10/04 10:06), Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> >Hi Erik
> >
> >In a browser go to: localhost:631/admin
> >This is the web based configuration tool for cups
> >
> >http://www.cups.org/sum.html
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Clive
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Clive.
>
> Thanks for your reply. The printers has been set up via :631 on my
> server, and they both works ok,
> but I cannot get them to print from my debian sarge via the network.
>
> Shall I still set the printing from debian up via localhost:631 ?.
Yes - you need to configure the debian client in the same way and select
the network printer. FWIW I could only get my printers to print via
samba across the network.
Regards
Clive
>
> This is what the cups site say:
>
>
> Networking
>
> Printers and classes on the local system are automatically shared with
> other systems on the network. This allows you to setup one system to
> print to a printer and use this system as a printer server or spool host
> for all of the others. Users may then select a local printer by name or
> a remote printer using "name@server".
>
> CUPS also provides/ implicit classes/, which are collections of printers
> and/or classes with the same name. This allows you to setup multiple
> servers pointing to the same physical network printer, for example, so
> that you aren't relying on a single system for printing. Because this
> also works with printer classes, you can setup multiple servers and
> printers and never worry about a single point of failure unless all of
> the printers and servers go down!
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