SysV Options xfered to remote queue

[Anonymous]

> bernd at rhm.de wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > we are using CUPS as System-V printing system. We have our own interface scripts in /etc/cups/interfaces which are called from cupsd. Everything woks great except one thing. When we start a printjob with 'lp -dprinter -ooption1 -ooption2 file' the options are passed to our interface script in parameter #5 if it is a local printer, fine! But when the print queue is on a remote system (lpd://system:515/queue) the options are not passed to our script on the remote side.
> >
> > Is this a bug, a feature our a missing definition in the IPP?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Bernd Rieke
>
> If the remote system is running a cupsd as well, the jobs are
> transferred to the remote system
> using the IPP protocol, and all the options (even nonstandard options)
> are transferred to the
> remote system.
>
> But if the job transfer to the remote system goes by LPD protocol, the
> options are lost.
> See RFC 1179 for dtails.
>
> Helge

Helge, thanks. It works with ipp://system/printers/queue. Took a while to understand the requiered word 'printers' ;-)
Bernd