The client.conf parser in cups-2.0.1 is broken, as a result network printing wont work unless running a cupsd on the clients as well. It is likely that all possible options from the local client.conf are affected by the broken parser as well. I have just seen it for the "ServerName" option. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge net-print/cups-2.0.1-r1 2. mkdir ~/.cups && echo "ServerName www.gentoo.org" > ~/.cups/client.conf 3. lpstat -a Actual Results: The lpstat will "work" for your local cupsd. The client.conf is ignored. Expected Results: lpstat should fail since www.gentoo.org can not be used as print server. The config file should be read correctly. The bug is fixed upstream (http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4539)
It is also broken for systemd... please stabilize latest available version Thanks
Stable for HPPA.
amd64 stable
x86 stable
ppc stable
sparc stable
Stable for PPC64.
arm stable
alpha stable
Superseded for ia64 by bug 551846.