Can CUPS filter driver get the IP info in shared printer environment

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon May 4 18:59:14 PDT 2009


keens312 wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> A USB printer connected to a CUPS system and shared over network.
> 
> I want to know if the CUPS system perceive the address of the computer who initiated the printing?
> 
> The /var/log/cups/error_log cannot log who did the printing, so that's hard to do the admin and accouting works.

The job-originating-host-name attribute (which is logged in the
page_log file) specifies the source host of the job.

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