Can CUPS share a printer on port 9100 ( like JetDirect )

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Sun Jan 8 15:22:45 PST 2006


thewonka wrote:
> I have heard that cups can share a printer via port 9100 or similar like JetDirect does.
> 
> Is this true, and if so how can one do this?

No directly, but you can use inetd/xinetd to run the "lp" command
when a client connects to port 9100.

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