I am currently adding the IPP protocol so you can use: lp -Pipp://host/printer
Patrick > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 29 13:28:37 2003 > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:23:22 -0400 (EDT) > From: James Thomas Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LPRng: Perennial CUPS/IPP questions > > 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. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
