cancel remote jobs

[Michael Sweet]

Pierre Ossman wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a usability problem that I can't find a solution to.
> Cancelling jobs only cancels the local spool, not the one connected to
> the printer.
> 
> I'm sitting at Workstation A, printing a document. That document gets
> spooled in the local cups daemon. The job is then sent on to Server B
> and put into the spool of the cups daemon running there.
> 
> At this point I decide to cancel my job. Using 'cancel' or 'lprm' on the
> job will then only remove the job from the spool on my local
> workstation. The job will still print since it is spooled on the server.
> In order to really cancel the job I have to figure out which server has
> the printer and send the cancel directly to it.
> 
> What I'd like to see is that a local cancel will be passed on to the
> next server until it reaches the one where the printer is actually
> connected. Is this possible with the current version of cups?

No, it's actually something that we're adding to 1.2...

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