passing solaris printing options to CUPS server

[Anonymous]

Thanks to Helge Blischke and Michael Sweet for your swift replies.

So, I have followed your advice and (compiled and) installed CUPS on the solaris client.  I then updated the /etc/cups/client.conf file to point to the cups server.  Printing with the format options (e.g landscape) now works correctly.

Is there a special procedure to install a "cups client".  I have actually installed a cups server on my solaris client  and simply updated the client.conf file so that CUPS behaves as a client.  It would be prefereable if I could install a cut-down version somehow.

Colin
European Commission

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > on a solaris 9 printing client, I have defined a printer called hp4_0062_a4.  It is configured as follows in /etc/printers.conf
> > hp4_0062_a4:\
> >         :bsdaddr=cupslpd.cc.cec.eu.int,hp4_0062_a4,Solaris:\
> >         :description=APPOPMP MO34 02/A22:
> >
> > On the CUPS server, the printer is defined as follows (/etc/cups/printers.conf)
> > <Printer hp4_0062_a4>
> > Info APPOPMP
> > Location B-28 07/114
> > DeviceURI lpd://hp4_0062_a4/lp
> > State Idle
> > Accepting Yes
> > JobSheets none none
> > QuotaPeriod 0
> > PageLimit 0
> > KLimit 0
> > </Printer>
> >
> > When I execute the following command on the the solaris printing client, I get the printing prints in portrait (none of the options are passed): -
> > lp -d hp4_0062_a4 -olandscape -ocpi13 -olpi8 /etc/hosts
> >
> > On the other hand, when I execute the same command on the cups server, the options succeed (e.g it prints in landscape).
> >
> > background Note: We are in the middle of a project to migrate from Xprint to CUPS.
> >
> > I would appreciate any advice, thanks in adv.,
> > Colin
>
> I guess the Solaris 9 spooler uses the LPD protocol (bsdaddr=...)
> according to
> RFC 1179 with some undocumented Solaris extensions (,Solaris). Thus, I
> guess you
> are stuck to the cups-lpd daemon with all its restrictions.
>
> I suggest to compile CUPS on Solaris 9 and install only the client part
> to be
> able to use all the comfort CUPS offers.
>
> Helge
>
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