Craig M. Houck wrote:
Roberto;Setting up a print server is as simple as setting up CUPS and telling it to listen on all interfaces (not just 127.0.0.1). You just setup CUPSAH....that is the trick. Thanks
No problem.
on the client(s) to point to the host at port 631 (which the port over which CUPS listens).Thanks for that info as well. It will have the printer connected to it via the serial port. Will that matter?
No. The clients will access the print server using CUPS' ipp protocol (most likely that is what you want if you have a CUPS server and CUPS clients, though newer Windows and Mac OS X also support IPP). Thus, the physical connection between the printer and the server is irrelevant from the clients' perspective.
If you really wanted, you could even take a networked printer (i.e., one that supports JetDirect or ipp natively) and route traffic to it through a CUPS server for accounting purposes and the clients would never know.
CUPS client --------------> CUPS server ---------------> network printer
(over eth) (over eth)
-Roberto
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