Alan,

Thanks again. I haven't read your whole message yet (as its Friday night 
and I'm at someones place)

I got it working today though before I received your message. I documented 
what I did and sent it to the other HQ volunteers. So I will read your e-
mail tomorrow to compare your suggestions to what I did incase it can be 
improved. I'm sure I still need to tweak things.

I did use qtcups as thats the one I use at home. I noticed during my 
research that theres a few others you can use instead but I probably won't 
look into them. 

I could also send you a copy of what I send the other HQ volunteers incase 
you are interested.

I didn't end up using much of that Mandrake snippet for printers.conf. I I 
try it out and ended up going to the backup copy.

One thing is there's a cups error log file which is really cool. I can't 
remember where it is right now though. (:

> Usual disclaimers apply, I'm not in front of a linux box at the mo'.  
Check
> out www.cups.org, and the cups mailing list archives for the real deal.
> 
> CUPS has changed its behaviour and the details of some of the config 
options
> quite significantly between versions 1.1.12, 1.1.14 and 1.1.15, we need 
to
> know which version you're running to really help.
> 
> qtcups (AFAIK) is just a qt front end to the cups client.  The cups 
client
> provides lp and lpr, so printing should work just using lpr -P<printer>,
> once it's set up.
> 
> Does everything work on the server?  I *think* the answer to that is yes,
> because you said you can see the LJ1200 if the address is localhost.
> 
> If so, then you need to determine how the printer is being shared from 
the
> CUPS server.  The CUPS server can broadcast the details of all printers 
it's
> serving, which enables any cups client to print to those printers without
> any config on the client.  If this is what you want, ensure that the file
> /etc/cups/whatever_its_called.conf contains the lines
> 
> Browsing On
> BrowseAddress @LOCAL
> 
> These lines enable browsing and export all printers accessible locally.
> Once you'ev done that, the cups client on the other machine should be 
able
> to see the LJ1200.
> 
> (the macro @LOCAL may just be a 1.1.15 option, I'm sorry , I can't 
remember
> that much detail)
> 
> The other option is to not enable browsing on the server, but instead to 
run
> a sevrver on each client, and point thequese you set up on the client's
> server to point to the queue on the server.  This is harder to say, but
> easier to do.  Unless you've got more than a few clients.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Alan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	caston@iinet.net.au [SMTP:caston@iinet.net.au]
> > Sent:	Friday, 29 November 2002 14:10
> > To:	plug@plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject:	[plug] cups linux 2 linux
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > What do I need to access a cups server from a cups client?
> > 
> > I'm trying qtcups
> > 
> > I have added the IP address of the CUPS server to /etc/cups/client.conf
> >  
> > ServerName 10.0.20.18
> > 
> > running qtcups as a external printing command from kedit brings up the
> > print 
> > dialog box. If I do this from the server with localhost in the server 
box
> > the option
> > to printer to LaserJet1200 is there. 
> > 
> > However, changing localhost to the IP does not show the Laserjet1200
> > 
> > I assume as I haven't yet brought windows in the equation I don't need
> > samba.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > 
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