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Re: printers

From Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: printers
Date 2018-12-13 21:50 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 07:44:29PM +0000, mick crane wrote:
>I have a debian buster PC that works as a print server. I can send 
>files to it from windows 

How? Do you have samba and the windows machines print via smb, or are 
they printing via ipp?

>I have another debian buster PC that I sometimes fiddle about on and 
>I'd like to type on that.
>"lpr filename"
>I don't want the cups sever on it just to print.

You should be able to do that with just the cups-client package and 
setting /etc/cups/client.conf to contain "ServerName whatever" where 
"whatever" is the hostname or IP of your print server. If that doesn't 
work it's likely that the print server isn't set to accept remote 
connections (the windows machines wouldn't need that if they're printing 
via smb).

It's also possible to make this all magically work via network 
broadcasts, but I find it simpler & more reliable to just configure 
client.conf in a single print server situaton.

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printers mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-12-13 20:50 +0100
  Re: printers Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-13 21:40 +0100
    Re: printers Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-14 00:00 +0100
      Re: printers aces and eights <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-12-14 10:00 +0100
      Re: printers mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-12-14 11:40 +0100
  Re: printers Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-12-13 21:50 +0100
    Re: printers mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-12-13 22:10 +0100
      Re: printers Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-12-13 22:30 +0100
    Re: printers mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-12-14 13:40 +0100
  Re: printers basti <mailinglist@unix-solution.de> - 2018-12-13 22:20 +0100
    Re: printers mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-12-13 22:40 +0100
      Re: printers Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-12-13 22:50 +0100
    Re: printers Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-12-13 22:40 +0100
    Re: printers Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-12-13 22:50 +0100

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