[cups.general] banner pages with CUPS
Kurt Pfeifle
kpfeifle at danka.de
Fri Jul 14 15:28:12 PDT 2006
Komal Shah <countofdracula at gmail.com> wrote (Friday 14 July 2006 22:37):
> Does anyone here know if it is possible to customize the banners in
> /usr/share/cups/banners?
Yes, it is possible.
> I assume the following is supposed to print
> the actual host name of the print job originator :
> ({job-originating-host-name}).
Correct.
> However, when I use the standard banner, all I ever get on my banner
> pages is this:
>
> Job ID: printer-13
> Title: (stdin)
> Requesting User: joy
> From Host: localhost
Which version of CUPS? Which OS?
> The problem here is the From Host: always says localhost. No matter
> where I print from.
*How* exactly do you print from your clients to the CUPS server?
[ if you have Samba Win32 clients, the job goes via the Windows
spooling system to Samba, and Samba hands over the job as a
"localhost" client (CUPS does not know about the remote Windows
client)... ]
Cheers,
Kurt
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