local printer and client.conf

[Ivan Degtyarenko]

>
> Hello,
>
> On Feb 1 01:52 Ivan Degtyarenko wrote (shortened):
> > I've tried to mix the remote printing through client.conf
> > and a local printer.
>
> This is not possible because a local printer needs a local running
> cupsd but even if there is a local running cupsd it is not at all
> used when another cupsd on a remote machine is specified via
> a ServerName entry in client.conf, see
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/ref-client-conf.html
> "... ServerName ... redirects all client requests ..."

Yep, thanks, that what I was afraid of, that client.conf need to be empty otherwise everything to be sent to the remote server. That means one has to separately configure every machine with the local printer connected.

> Instead use the CUPS default "Browsing".
>
> You may have a look at the CUPS documentation at
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php
> or alternatively see
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
> in particular the section about "Configuring CUPS in the Network"

Thanks for the links, the one from SuSE is especially useful.

YT, Ivan