poll and relay

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Jun 22 10:17:49 PDT 2004


dl279 at cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hmm, do you have browsing enabled on both the server and clients? 
>> Are there any BrowseAllow/Deny lines on either?  Are you getting 
>> any messages concerning the browsing in /var/log/cups/error_log?
>> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Michael,
> 
> I found out what the problem was, I had the same printers on both
> servers (for resilience) with the same name. On the servers if you
> run the comand lpstat -p you get this king of outcome:
> 
> printer number1 is idle printer number1 at serverB is idle
> 
> On clients I've just discovered that if printers have the same name,
> they get listed only once without specifying the server name. I was
> expecting the same outcome from lpstat that's why I thought that my
> settings were not working.

Right, the implicit classes are created on the clients; you can
use the HideImplicitMembers directive in the client's cupsd.conf
file to still show the original queues, e.g.:

     HideImplicitMembers no

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