[Wylug-help] Lost network printing

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Stephen Patterson wrote:

> On 10 Jan 06, Anne Wilson (cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk) wrote:
>> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf - isn't that the server config file?  I know there
>> is no problem there because it serves this and two other boxes and
>> works fine.  It's just the debian laptop that is having problems.
>
> Ah, thats me barking up the wrong tree then.
>
>> Of course since I'm new to debian I could have screwed something up, but
>> I can't see that anything I've done should have affected this.
>
> I've just checked over my cups client.conf, and there's nothing set there at all
> (so it uses cups broadcast to find servers, though ServerName could be set).

If you don't use broadcast, then using the client.conf approach is the most
painless way of having a single place to configure.  Broadcast does offer
other advantages (like having multiple print servers for a single networked
printer) and it's nearly always usable on a home network.

jh

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