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

[Brian Potkin]

On Sat 21 May 2016 at 17:21:17 +0300, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:

> On 2016-05-20 at 14:41 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Even without such tools, the CUPS web interface _does_ preselect the
> correct vendor and model when adding a local printer for which the
> drivers are installed. I don't know the mechanism, but it exists and I
> want to keep that behavior when adding a remote printer over dns-sd.

I hardly ever use the GUI tools so that behaviour with a local printer
is something I hadn't noticed. In a quick test it didn't happen for me.

> Even when I alter the *Product line in the PPD (as advised), only
> vendor gets preselected correctly in the web interface; the model still
> needs to be selected by hand.

Step by step we could get closer to an acceptable solution for you. Try
altering *Product to "(PostScript)".