[cups.general] No Printing to a remote Cups Server

[Mark J. Bradakis]

What commands are you using on the client to print to the server?  Are they cups based
or lpd programs?

If the client programs are not cups aware, then you most likely need to have an lpd aware
daemon running on the server to listen for and respond to requests.

If the client programs are aware of cups, then you can see if basic communication between
the two is working.  Kill any cupsd programs running on the client.  Edit the client
configuration file, most likely /etc/cups/client.conf to contain the line

ServerName Name.of.host.with.printer

Then try your lpr, lpstat, lpq, etc. programs on the client and see if they are talking to
the cups daemon on the server.  If not, try to telnet from the client to the server using
port 631, i.e.

telnet server_machine 631

If you get a connection, then the client is talking to cups, start digging through the cups
access and error logs on the server, you may need to bump up the debugging info in the server's
cupsd.conf and restart cupsd, then try again. If the telnet connection is refused then there
are network access issues [firewall, inetd] that need to be resolved first, rather than cups issues.

mjb.