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Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Feb 21 10:50:29 PST 2007


John A. Murdie wrote:
> Mike Sweet wrote:
>> If you have a single server for a particular group of users, you can
>> just add a client.conf file that points to that server, eliminating
>> the local queue.  If you use a name with multiple IPs, you can even
>> get a certain about of failover/load-balancing with the proper DNS
>> configuration.
>> ...
>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com
> 
> I note from http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-client-conf.html that there is a ServerName directive but that nothing is said about - and a quick test shows that this does not allow - the specification of a port number. This would be useful for software testing; I have a production cupsd on our production print server listening on port 631, and an experimental cupsd listening on port 632. To test clients which don't have a local cupsd which talk directly to the experimental cupsd on the server, I would like to be able to write:
 > ...

Sorry, I'll add an example.

Just as with CUPS_SERVER and -h, use:

     ServerName foo:1234

to specify both the host/IP and port number.

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com




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