[cups] Linux->(Linux, Windows) printer sharing with drivers on the server

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On May 20 02:03 Ivan Shapovalov wrote (excerpt):
> On 2016-05-19 at 18:31 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
>> Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
>>
>>> 1. the client tries to install an HP-specific PPD
>>>    for the discovered printer (while we want
>>>    a generic postscript driver);
>>
>> Take the PPD on the server and alter the *Product line to
>>   (Generic Postscript Printer (en))
>>
> It works with GNOME's system-config-printer,
> the setup is completely automated.

Ha!
now I seem to understand what you meant all the time
when you talked about automated client setup.

It seems you were talking about whatever automated
working printer setup tools that run on the client.

I do not use any such tools.

Therefore I did not understand what kind of automated
print queue setup with strange drivers on clients
is happening for you.

It seems you are hit by this bug:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=852842
(excerpts,
  therein "local host" means "client" in your case):
-----------------------------------------------------------
When system-config-printer-applet is installed but
system-config-printer is not installed
...
It set up a local queue using the PPD file from the
remote queue from the remote CUPS server which means
that the local host would do the print job filtering
...
This means that in particular the printer driver must
run on the local host which means that matching software
that provides the printer driver must be installed
...
That is contradictory to how printing to a remote
CUPS queue should usually be done under Linux
...
In contrast when system-config-printer is installed,
the behaviour is very different
...
what gets set up in the end is a local "raw" print queue
-----------------------------------------------------------

Such issues do not belong to CUPS but to whatever other
upstream projects that belong to those automated working
printer setup tools.

Again:
I do not use any such tools.
Therefore I cannot help (frankly: I am not interested)
in any way if there are issues with such tools.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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