cups does not show jobs in remote samba/lpr queue

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Nov 14 07:42:38 PST 2008


chbeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to make cups show the jobs in a remote print queue on a samba or lpr server to the cups user ?

Sorry, no.  The CUPS client apps do not understand the SMB or LPD
protocols (and I use the term loosely for LPD since the status format
was never defined and so cannot be reliably parsed...)

For SMB you can probably use smbclient.

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