On Friday 11 December 2009 19:42:23 Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-12-09 14:52 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> This does not only apply to client applications, but also to > >> computers configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only > >> set-up and configure a printer on one server for a whole network. > >> With a default debian installation, the clients on the network will > >> discover the printer automatically and 'just work'. I have never used > >> lprng so I don't know, if it has a similar feature. > > > > Actually, it's the other way around: with CUPS, every client has to be > > configured for that particular printer. To make up for it, CUPS has > > support to make this confuiguration automatic, but if your client > > doesn't have the appropriate driver, you're screwed. > > Not with my CUPS and Lenny boxes. I have CUPS and a CUPS-published > printer configured on my main desktop machine. Then I have a laptop with > just "aptitude install cups" default settings. On my home network the > printer is available and fully functional for my laptop without any > configuration or drivers needed in the laptop. "aptitude install cups" > is everything that is needed. > > > With LPRng, the configuration is only done once and for all on one > > machine. That's the only one that needs to have the appropriate > > driver. > > Just like my CUPS. > > I don't know about LPRng at all, maybe it's better than CUPS, but your > comments on CUPS definitely don't match my experience.
Nor mine. I have my printers set-up on all my computers, and do not normally run them from the network. But once when I was in a hurry, and the printer set-up on one of my boxes was unusable because the drivers etc. had been messed up (I can't remember how) I was able to print over the network from one of the other computers, in spite of the messed up driver on the computer I was working on. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
