[cups.general] cups-lpd and remote queues

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 04:14 -0700, Helge Blischke wrote: 
> 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.

Is there any standard or distributed script for that purpose?  I'd like
to keep this as minimally hacked as possible.

On the other had I've pretty much given in to just creating queues on
multiple servers as the printer sharing doesn't really work in a useful
manner.
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