[cups.general] cups user in distress.

[Hugh Caley]

No such option in "man lpr" on my machines running Fedora Core 2, 3 or 4 
and CUPS 1.1.22 or 1.1.23.

However, "lp -h hostname -d queuename filename" does work; see "man lp"

Hugh

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 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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