Cups importing/exporting

[Kurt Pfeifle]

> In the old version of cups (v1.1) you use to be able to import and
> export the cups package to other servers so that you didnt have to
> manually add the printers to 80 different servers.

I never heard of such a package, at least not one provided by CUPS itself. Which operating system is this?

> I haven't seen a way to do this with v1.2 other than adding them all
> manually.  I am sure there is a way to create a package and export it
> out to other servers.  Can anyone help with this?

You are sure that you do not have in mind just a simple function built into CUPS that allows "driverless printing" for all CUPS clients by enabling something called "printer browsing"?

Basically, if your CUPS server has these settings,

  Browsing On
  BrowseAddress @LOCAL

*and* your CUPS clients have an empty or missing client.conf (or empty .cupsrc files)

  Browsing On
  BrowseAllow @LOCAL
  BrowseDeny None

this driverless printing should work as long as client and server are on the same LAN/subnet (if they are apart, you need additional measures).

KDE or other GUI-based client programs will see all the driver options in their interfaces.

CLI printing will be enabled with all print options, where the printer specific options may be constructed by reading the output of

  lpoptions -p printer_name -l

first.

Cheers,
Kurt

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Kurt Pfeifle
System & Network Printing Consultant ---- Linux/Unix/Windows/Samba/CUPS
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