Ghee Teo wrote:
Stewart Walters wrote:
Mind you in my situation, my CUPS server is situated on a Debian
Linux box and CUPS on Opensolaris is configured with a
/etc/cups/client.conf file pointing to it. While I don't think it
has an affect, I haven't ruled it out yet either.
We don't use /etc/cups/client.conf to configure cups.
Actually, client.conf is a CUPS specific functionality.
The CUPS 1.4 documentation
(http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/sharing.html) states the
following:
--- snip ---
Automatic Configuration using IPP
CUPS can be configured to run without a local spooler and send all jobs
to a single server. However, if that server goes down then all printing
will be disabled. Use this configuration only as absolutely necessary.
The default server is normally the local system ("localhost"). To
override the default server create a file named /etc/cups/client.conf
with a line as follows:
ServerName server
--- snip ---
It's a pretty common way to configure a multi server environment to send
it's jobs to the dedicate "print server", and I already have had success
in Production environments configuring CUPS with a client.conf on both
Solaris 10 and Linux servers.
My current /etc/cups/client.conf has the following:
ServerName printserver.example.com:631
Having already put this configuration in place a long time ago, I've
just run system-config-printer as you suggested and I already get an
entire list of the print queues available on printserver.example.com
(the debian box).
When I click on Server -> Settings, I'm asked for the root password of
printserver.example.com. Once I type this in, the "Show Printers shared
by other systems" is already enabled.
I already know using CUPS on OpenSolaris as a client to the Debian Linux
works, as I can print from OpenSolaris Thunderbird successfully. I get
this message box when attempting to print from Thunderbird:
http://tinypic.com/r/2znsp4y/4
However Firefox and evince receive a printing dialog box like this:
http://tinypic.com/r/jua9fn/4
P.S. This is the last thing I can advise apart from asking you to
upgrade to a later build :)
I'd like to avoid this if possible, as this server is a Sun Ray server
and I'm not yet sure how well it works with snv_125 or snv_126 yet
(there are varying reports).
Regards,
Stewart
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