[cups.general] CUPS client setup

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Sep 13 16:05 matousek at cs.sfu.ca wrote (shortened):
> I am running CUPS server on seasons and
> I have configured the cmpt-471 printer and I can print locally from
> seasons with no problem.
> 
> I tried to setup CUPS client on one on the 20 machines and I have
> included
> 
> ServerName seasons  or
> ServerName 172.16.1.1
> 
> in the /etc/cups/client.conf
> 
> I cannot add printer on the client (lpadmin).

This is a contradiction in itself.
Either you use client.conf without cupsd on the client
or you let cupsd run on the client and use Browsing
or you set up queues on the client (which is not recommended).
See the CUPS documentation or see for example
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/jsmeix_print-cups-in-a-nutshell.html

Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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