CUPS in client/server mode

This post was written on 2005/06/13 at 23:00:53

This weekend I found a nice little feature in CUPS that helps and probably also will help me a lot in the future: You can run CUPS also only as a client application by adding following line to your $HOME/.cupsrc 

ServerName yourServerHostname

(Replace "yourServerHostname" with the IP or hostname of another machine running CUPS and having a printer plugged in ;-) The server also has to be configured to allow connects from hosts other than 127.0.0.1)

Now CUPS will act on your user account as a client application and offer you all the printers on the other host for example in Firefox when you want to print something (or any other application that uses CUPS ;-) ). To get this behaviour systemwide add the line above to the /etc/cups/client.conf

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