Printing from Web-Application

[Helge Blischke]

If your dial-in clients come in via a specific (or a set of) 
interface(s), try "Allow @IF(interfacename)" in your cupsd.conf.

Helge


Christof wrote:
> 
> Unfortunatly it's not that simple, because the clients may not have a hostname besides the one they get automatically by dialing, like
> lpz45132.t-dsl.t-online.de, so the host name is not known in advance either.
> 
> It's like, people say "I want to use your application" and I say "Here's your username and password, and you have to tell me what printer you have and do this and that to configure your computer properly".
> 
> While "this and that" might involve setting up an IPP-compatible printserver it is surely not acceptable that people have to register a domain.
> 
>        Christof
> 
> Helge Blischke wrote:
> > Christof wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > 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.

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