[cups.general] Sharing Queues Between Two Servers

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Tue Jun 12 05:50:08 PDT 2012


Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>:
> I have two CUPS servers (both cups-lpd-1.4.2-44.el6.x86_64) on different
> subnets.  I want the print queues on each to be available on the other
> [in addition to their local queues].
> My browsing configuration is:
>
> ServerA
> ---------
> Browsing On
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> BrowseDeny all
> BrowsePoll SERVERB.mormail.com
> BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS
> BrowseRelay 127.0.0.1 @LOCAL
> BrowseTimeout 600
> BrowseInterval 300
>
> ServerB
> ---------
> Browsing On
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> BrowseDeny all
> BrowsePoll SERVERA.mormail.com
> BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS
> BrowseRelay 127.0.0.1 @LOCAL
> BrowseTimeout 600
> BrowseInterval 300
>
> I can see the 'remote' queues in each server's printer list in the CUPS
> WebUI.  But I can't print to those queues.  If I try to print to a queue
> on SERVERB via SERVERA using the cups-lpd service the print fails.
> CUPS clients [LINUX workstations] on the subnet of SERVERA only see the
> printers from SERVERA and not the queues from SERVERB [although, again,
> I see them on the printer list of SERVERA].
> What am I doing wrong?

Really?? Nothing??  Nobody does this?

Does anyone at least have a reference to a document, HOWTO, or example?

Searching the interwebz on this topic has proven to be monumentally  
pointless [which is disappointing, I assumed this would be a common  
thing to do; it seems like a core feature of CUPS.].





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