CUPS implicit classes

[Dan Willis]

Thanks. I was afraid of that. Looks like setting up a netbios alias to 
the other server with samba is the best bet if I have a failure.

Michael Sweet wrote:

> 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...
>