Due a change in our printing environment that requires us to do both kerberos authentication and IPP printing I have been forced to look at some new options in printing. I really like the idea of a CUPS server and lprng clients. Mostly because CUPS plays well with Windows and MacOS X (or it's supposed to).
One niggling little piece that I've been chasing for a while is the lpoptions piece. I would like to be able to specify some page handling options when I send a job from Unix. So when I submit a job with lprng to the CUPS server by "lp -o landscape somefile.ps", the cups-lpd doesn't interpret the options correctly. After asking the CUPS people about this, thier response was "Well LPRng isn't standard, you shouldn't expect it to work. Use CUPS." So, I said OK and tried a purely CUPS approach. Well, of course CUPS doesn't support kerberos authentication. Their lp "client" isn't an lp/lpr client, it's an IPP client, which hardly seems like a standard to me (not IPP per say, but calling an ipp client an lp client). So, I thought, it would be great to be able to print to IPP servers from the lprng client. After perusing the LPRng archives and seeing the IPP may have existed for an old version (3.5.1), and that version 4.x is sure to have it (but doesn't exist yet), is there any way for me to send IPP jobs from the lprng client? Of course, if I could get lprng and CUPS to agree on how to interpret options send via lp, that would also solve a good many problems for me. Is there some place I can try out LPRng-4.0.0 or can I somehow bolt on the IPP stuff from 3.5.1 into 3.8.21? James Klaas (734)615-0364 CAEN Systems Group IST 5113 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
