Re: printers

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2018-12-13 20:42, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:44:29PM +0000, mick crane wrote:
> > I have a debian buster PC that works as a print server. I can send 
> > files to it from windows
>
> How? Do you have samba and the windows machines print via smb, or are
> they printing via ipp?
>
> > I have another debian buster PC that I sometimes fiddle about on and 
> > I'd like to type on that.
> > "lpr filename"
> > I don't want the cups sever on it just to print.
>
> You should be able to do that with just the cups-client package and
> setting /etc/cups/client.conf to contain "ServerName whatever" where
> "whatever" is the hostname or IP of your print server.

Ok that does it.
would be cool if client.conf already existed with line saying
# put ipaddress of print server here.

--
Key ID    4BFEBB31