Bug 52451 – Why does the quick-samba-howto tell you to start cupsd on clients?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-05-30 06:41:37 UTC]

Why start cupsd indeed?
You should only need to define your cups server in /etc/cups/client.conf and lp tools will connect to your server.

That's how I use it but I am definitely not a cups guru. Any feedback would be appreciated.

[Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-07-02 08:29:38 UTC]

I think it's because the local CUPS daemon connects to the remote CUPS daemon. I don't know, I don't use any printing service at all.

[Comment 2 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-07-02 08:33:51 UTC]

But why run cupsd on all clients?
It's useless IMHO

I defined my cups server in /etc/cups/client.conf and that's it

[Comment 3 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-07-03 05:55:21 UTC]

Can anyone from the samba or printing teams explain why users are told to start cupsd on all clients?
Thanks.

[Comment 4 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-07-05 08:33:51 UTC]

xavier is right, it is not needed.

[Comment 5 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-07-07 10:59:21 UTC]

Thanks for confirming Heinrich.

I'll make the guide consistent with out printing-howto. i.e. clients need only to have the server defined in /etc/cups/client.conf

[Comment 6 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 01:51:27 UTC]

what's the status of this?

[Comment 7 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 01:53:29 UTC]

Still on my ToDo list, near the top ;-)
It should not take too long.
Thanks for your ping.

[Comment 8 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-08-20 07:08:51 UTC]

Created attachment 37806 [details, diff]
Rewrite of cups client config

This is a rewrite of the cups client config part. No need to start cupsd on
clients, just define the server, show list of printers, define default one,
print something.

Please review this patch. Thanks.

[Comment 9 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) 2004-08-22 05:27:09 UTC]

No one seems to be complaining about this, I'll go ahead. It works nicely for me.

Committed.