[cups.general] cups user in distress.

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Wed Mar 23 16:21:26 PST 2005


The "lpr" command of CUPS does it, too. Do something like "lpr -h 
<server name> <file>", see "man lpr".

    Till


Hugh Caley wrote:
> I don't believe that syntax will work with CUPS.  The older RedHat 
> Distributions came with LPRng, which allowed you to use the "light" 
> syntax, that is, to send a job to a server without spooling it locally, 
> hence the IP address of the server.  The CUPS version of the lpr command 
> does not allow this.  You will probably need to set up the printer 
> locally first.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> Richard Reina wrote:
> 
>> Can someone please tell me what I must do to get cups
>> to print on a remote print server.
>>
>> I have a newly installed FC3 box and I just want to
>> send a job to a remote print server.  This command
>> works on all my other machines (they run RH 7 & 8).
>>
>> lpr -P lp at 192.168.0.4 document1
>>
>> But on this new FC3 machine it returns:
>>
>> lpr: error - unable to print file:
>> client-error-not-found
>>
>> Can anyone help?
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>
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