[cups.general] cups-lpd and remote queues

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Wed Jun 13 04:14:36 PDT 2012


Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 21:38 -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> Adam,
>> Yes, we intentionally do not allow this configuration.
> 
> Excellent, thanks for the response.  Keeps me from beating my head
> against the wall.
> 
> Apparently it isn't possible to remotely print to a discovered queue via
> IPP either.  I suppose this makes sense.

But, instead of using the original cups-lpd, you could set up, say, a script 
(Perl, for instance) which accepts incoming LPD jobs and forwards them to 
the local CUPS server using the lp or lpr command.
Under these conditions you should be able to print to remote queues.

Helge





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