Re: geany cannot use printers shared by cups

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

On 2019-11-02 17:33, deloptes wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> > A month ago printer sharing worked, now the only option showing in the
> > print requester for geany is cups-file or cups-pdf.
> >
> > yet I can run firefox and send it to localhost:631/printers on any of 
> > the
> > client machines and see all 5 of the shared profiles I have setup.
> >
> > Clues for the obviously clueless please
>
> if the cups server != cups client
>
> check on the client that you have
> /etc/cups/client.conf
>
> with option pointing to your cups server
>
> ServerName <your cups server>

that's the one bit that I was missing to get things to work.
When it's behaving have a look at enscript.
I just used it to change the font size but it looks to have loads of 
useful options.

mick

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