[cups.general] Printing from AIX to remote CUPS Server

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Apr 30 07:42:18 PDT 2010


You can accept jobs via LPD using the cups-lpd mini-daemon ("man cups-lpd" for instructions), and then the usual AIX printing support will work.

However, you'll lose the ability to send options, etc., and you'll need to manually setup each queue on the clients.

On Apr 29, 2010, at 11:44 PM, James Mackay wrote:

> Thanks to a lot of help from this forum I have now managed to get CUPS installed on one of my AIX 5.3 systems and it is printing fine.
> 
> I would now like to be able to use this machine as a print server for several other AIX machines.
> 
> Is this possible? Or would I need to install CUPS on all of the machines that I would like to print from?
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