[cups.general] Behaviour of BrowseRemoteOptions

Ralf Greschke rgreschke at ish.de
Mon Jan 24 08:37:15 PST 2011


Hi Michael
Thx for the answers...didn't satisfy me at all ;)

I'll try it in an other way:
Is it possible (in an easy way) to add '?waitjob=false&waitprinter=false' to 
ALL remote printers I've configured?
Without using lpadmin on all printers....that's annoying, trust me ;)

Ralf


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From: "Michael Sweet" <msweet at apple.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 6:49 AM
Newsgroups: cups.general
To: "Mirror of cups.general Newsgroup" <cups at easysw.com>
Subject: Re: [cups.general] Behaviour of BrowseRemoteOptions

> On Jan 22, 2011, at 4:01 AM, Ralf Schade wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Am I right?
>>
>> BrowseRemoteOptions changes the behaviour of all printers I've defined?
>> Does it append all options I've added?
>
> Per the documentation, if the value starts with a question mark it will 
> replace any options that are advertised by the server, otherwise they are 
> added to the options advertised by the server.
>
>> I.e.:
>> I have some (about 500) remote printers defined with a DeviceURI like:
>> http://remote-printer.example.com/.printer
>> When I add the BrowseRemoteOptions with 
>> ?waitjob=false&waitfoprinter=false
>> Is this option than added to ALL printers which I've defined?
>
> No, BrowseRemoteOptions only applies to printers discovered using the 
> CUPS, LDAP, or SLP protocols. Hard-wired remote printers don't get 
> affected, particularly not remote Windows print queues.
>
>>
>> Or did I misunderstood this option?
>>
>> Thx in advance
>> Ralf
>>
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> ________________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
> 





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