redirecting printers

[Michael De Vlaminck]

hasn't anybody here ever used or needed printer redirection?
Because it would be very handy when a printer breaks down. So that I can 
redirect the job from the broken printer to another one.

thanks
Michael De Vlaminck

Michael De Vlaminck wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using cups 1.1 for our printing system.
> We have 2 different printservers, one for our department and one for the 
> secretary network.
> I was experimenting with the redirecting/forwarding of printqueues.
> We need this redirecting in case one of the printers breakes down so we 
> can redirect the jobs from those queues to another printer.
> 
> Our clients use the printers by polling aqua for printers using the 
> browsepoll directive.
> 
> I've tried the following 3 redirects on our departemental server:
> Aqua is our departemental server and happy is the secr network server.
> 
> 1. printer1 at aqua redirects to printer2 on aqua
>     using ipp://127.0.0.1/printers/printer2
> 2. printer3 at aqua redirects to printer-secr at happy
>     using ipp://happy.cs.kuleuven.be/printers/printer-secr
> 3. printer4 at aqua redirects to printer-secr at happy
>     using ipp://happy.cs.kuleuven.be/printers/printer-secr
> 
> Results:
> 
> lpstat -p on aqua: this shows all the printers served by aqua
> lpstat -p on a client: this shows all the printers served by aqua except 
>  for printer1 and printer4. So this means that redirect 1 and 3 doesn't 
> work on the clients but redirect 2 does work.
> 
> When I go the the cups webinterface on aqua and view the printers It 
> show all the printers, also the 3 being redirected.
> But when I want to print using lpr it return an error: lpr: error - 
> unable to print file: client-error-not-found
> And when I use kprinter it doesn't show printers 1 and 4, just like with 
> lpstat -p.
> 
> Can anyone help me with the problem? Thanks in advance!
> 
> greetz
> Michael De Vlaminck