[cups.general] printcap lacks of browsing printers

[Helge Blischke]

Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> some older versions of cups had the feature that they showed
> the remote printers, received by the browsing protocoll, in
> /etc/printcap too.
> 
> Today /etc/printcap consists only local configured printers.
> 
> But some old unix(tm) applications still insist to print only
> on printers offered by the printcap. :(
> 
> Can anyone tell me, how remote printers can be added to the
> printcap (without configuring them on several hundrets machines :-).
> I'm looking out for a helpful cupsd.conf option.
> 
> Can anyone tell me, what the reason for this change was?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
>         Klaus.

Is something like

LP-EMUL at nsplus|Banddrucker-Ersatz:rm=obelix:rp=LP-EMUL at nsplus:

where "obelix" is the local system and "nsplus" the system that homes
the printer ?

Entries like this are generated by default when browsing is on.

Helge

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