[cups] CUPS application in Cloud

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Mar 26 06:22:47 PDT 2018


I should also note that IPP does provide cloud extensions to properly support this kind of architecture - prototyping is happening in the "ippsample" project here:

    https://github.com/istopwg/ippsample

although this is nothing I would use for production yet...


> On Mar 26, 2018, at 9:17 AM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
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> Rasha,
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2018, at 3:45 AM, Sonthalia, Rashi <rashi.sonthalia at mheducation.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 
>> We are currently using CUPS version 1.1.21 software and our requirement is to move it to cloud. Could you please let us know if it is possible with the current version or an upgrade to other version of the CUPS software  is required?
> 
> First, CUPS 1.1.21 is ancient (14 years old) and unsupported.  Any Linux cloud solution will run a more recent version...
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> Second, the issue you will run into is remote access to your printers - generally speaking you *don't* want to make your printers accessible over the Internet...  Some people use VPN tunnels, although you'll need to ask in another forum for help with that... :)
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