[cups.general] Serving a GhostScript que via LPD

[Jerome Alet]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:09:27PM -0400, anonymous at easyw.com wrote:
> Hello all. I am not that impressed w/ cups thus far and am looking for someone to wow me here!
> I am looking to create a cups-pdf printer queue that is served up by LPD with the goal of "printing" to a PDF file from my VMS servers.
> 
> I have cups-lpd running as part of xinetd w/o incident. I am 
> unable to add a simple LPD host queue on my Gentoo box to be printed 
> to from other hosts. The web admin is not at all helpful, what do I 
> need to put in the URI field? I have tried many things and nothing 
> seems to be working! 
> 
> Remember that I am trying to serve a LPD queue that will 
> ultimately print to PDF... what am I missing here? 

you should install the cups-pdf backend, and also modify cupsd.conf
to accept connections from remote hosts (and restart CUPS, although
cups-lpd maybe doesn't care since inetd starts it anew each time)

cupsd.conf uses Allow/Deny directives the same way 
than (or similar to) Apache.

hth

Jerome Alet