On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 17:31 -0400, TechList wrote: > Right now there are two situation. One situation, is that I have 1 machine > that acts as a print server with the printer physically connected to it (e.g > via USB port). Say I have 5 other computers on the LAN, I have to configure > printer on each of those 5 computer to use the same print server, right ? How > do I avoid doing "system-config-printer" five times on those machine ? As Aaron said, once a CUPS server is configured to print to that printer, all other CUPS clients will use it automatically. The only configuration you should have to do, if you want and need to, is pick a default printer if you have more than one available. If you manually configure clients, you may disrupt the automatic feature. I haven't done manual configuration for a long time, but in the past it'd stop it automatic printer finding, completely. I think that, more recently, it just adds manually configured printers to the discovered ones. Firewalling can get in the way, too. > A second situation is that the printer sits on the network (e.g a printer with > ethernet and HP Jet Direct protocol). If I have multiple computer that tries > to use that printer, how do I set it up once and just copy the configuration > among those computers ? If it's network printing using IPP, then it should be found just the same as the CUPS server (automatically). Ethernet is just a connection, IPP is Internet Printing Protocol. There are other network printing protocols, and I don't know how the HP does its tricks. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
