implicit classes and serverpolling

[Michael Sweet]

Michael De Vlaminck wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have 2 printservers running cups and managing the same printers.
> On the client I have set cupsd.conf to poll those 2 server for printers. And I have enabled implicit classes.
> Now kdeprinter shows me several printers:
> - printerA at server1
> - printerB at server1
> - printerA at server2
> - printerB at server2
> - printerA
> - printerB
> 
> The 2 last printers are the automaticly created printer classes.
> Is it possible to configure cups that only the printerclasses are showed to the user?
> So that the user doesn't even know that there are multiple printservers in use.
> Because I want to setup a printsystem with load balancing and (more importantly) failsafe operation, but I want it to be as transparent as possible to the users.

For any recent version of CUPS, the HideImplicitMembers option is
what you'll want to use (it *should* be defaulting to Yes...)

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