CUPS implicit classes

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sat Oct 16 17:06:00 PDT 2004


Dan Willis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to use CUPS implicit classes for load balancing and failover. 
>     I have identical print queues setup on two CUPS servers- I've 
> enabled implicit classes and browsing on both boxes as well. I have 
> setup windows machines to print to 
> http://servername:631/printers/identicalprintername and it works fine as 
> long as both boxes are up.  However, if I take the first CUPS server 
> down, I'm not getting the failover to the other CUPS server.  Should 
> implicit classes work with Windows clients?  Or does the failover only 
> apply to Linux clients?

The failover only works with CUPS clients; Windows lacks the features
required to support implicit classes and failover...

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