[cups.general] Client Printing to Soaris Cups Server

[Michael Sweet]

On Sep 23, 2010, at 9:10 AM, Dan Hughes wrote:
> ...
> Now if I add the printer through ipp: "lpadmin -p M2727 -s ipp://server/printers/M2727" the printouts are formatted correctly.
> 
> Here's the problem, I can add through IPP on most Solaris 10 boxes, on several (including the most critical one) when I add IPP and go to print I get the error:
> 
> lp -d M2727 /etc/hosts
> Failed to contact service for foo: not-found

You probably don't have the same Solaris 10 build or patches installed.

> I have Googled until I'm nauseous with no answers. Is there a way to get CUPS to accept the options from the lp command using LPD on a client? 

No.  LPD does not support printer options, and we do not support the various vendor extensions mainly because there are too many overlapping and incompatible extensions in use.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair




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