Printing from Web-Application

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Mon Sep 6 04:41:17 PDT 2004


Christof wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Web Application that should print on the client's printer (so the Web-client is the CUPS-server and vice versa). The problem is that the clients may use dial-in connections, so the IP address is not known in advance.
> 
> Am I right that the only way to use CUPS in this situation would be to install an new printer on-the-fly with lpadmin based on the remote IP address and delete it immediatly after the printjob?
> 
> Seems like a mild abuse of the concept, so I'm wondering if there's a smarter solution, like overriding the IP with a lpr command-line
> switch.
> 

If you have a working DNS, properly configured to handle your dial-in
line connected
clients, there should be no problem, as you only need to know the host
name.

Helge


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