[cups.general] Cups inner working question.

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 13, 2007, at 5:25 , Arjuna Scagnetto wrote:

> Cups Server Running
>
> Cups CLient not running but still able to print using lpr.
>
> How is it possible?

If I understand your question correctly...

The only difference between a server and a client is the  
configuration of cupsd; if you are on the same machine, cupsd will be  
both a client for local print jobs and a server for printers.  It's  
only on other machines that you would need to configure and run cupsd  
as a client (or, alternately, configure lpd as a client to forward  
jobs to the CUPS server, or use LPRng and configure it to send jobs  
directly without using a local lpd --- we do the latter since I like  
the idea that clients don't run any special services to print).

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