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Re: printers

From mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: printers
Date 2018-12-14 13:40 +0100
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On 2018-12-13 20:42, Michael Stone wrote:
> 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.

Ok that does it.
would be cool if client.conf already existed with line saying
# put ipaddress of print server here.

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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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