Re: cups clients?

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> writes:

> Le 25/12/2014 17:18, Reco a écrit :
>>  Hi.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:05:05PM +0100, lee wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> do you need to install the whole cups server on all machines that want
>>> to print, or is there some sort of client setup to access the printers
>>> available on a central server (which runs a fully featured cups)?
>> It's surely possible to install cups client only (as of Wheezy the
>> package is called cups-client) and print via one CUPS server over a
>> network.
>> Such configuration requires each client to have ~/.cups/client.conf with
>> the name of server in it, unless you'd want to mess with CUPS
>> auto-discovery feature.
>>
>> Reco
>>
>>
>
> Or /etc/cups/client.conf, That's what I do for a park of ~ 200 machines,
> to direct them automatically to the print server.

Thanks, I'll try that out :)


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