On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:15 -0700, Jim Gettys wrote: >> Note there is a client library for IPP for cups that can talk to remote >> servers, without having to run a spooler locally. This may be a better >> option.... > > It might be if it were an option that actually worked. But I tried it a > month or so ago and you must have the cups daemon running to discover > remote printers. That doesn't mean you have to have a local queue set > up for the printer, but all of the discovery happens in the daemon and > not in client apps.
why not use DHCP to provide the lpr print server IP address and then use that for the IPP printer with a default queue name? (or see if you can abuse the DHCP option to provide a URL instead of just a list of servers) David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
