[cups.general] advanced printer options visibility

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jun 1 02:39 muzzol wrote (excerpt):
> the whole point about having a centralized print server is
> to simplify client setup.

The current (i.e. up to CUPS 1.5) way for this is to do
no client setup at all by using so called CUPS Browsing, see
"Intrinsic design of CUPS for printing in the network" at
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell

With CUPS Browsing the clients get the printer options
from the queues on the centralized print server.
Only with local queues on the client as you set up
this did also work but now it does no longer work.

Note that CUPS Browsing will be dropped from CUPS 1.6 on
and Bonjour (Avahi under Linux) is the replacement, see
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3922
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3889
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general+T+Q%22Why+is+CUPS+browsing+deprecated%22


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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