using a remote CUPS server from Kubuntu Jaunty

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Freitag, 11. September 2009 20:12:38 schrieb Mark Greenwood:
> On Thursday 10 Sep 2009 20:36:51 Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > my employer provides several printers and a CUPS server for accessing
> > them. I’d like to use this CUPS server directly from my Kubuntu Jaunty
> > machine, i.e., I don’t want to use the CUPS server on localhost at all.
> > This way, I won’t have to configure all the printers by hand, since they
> > are already configured on my employer’s CUPS server.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I couldn’t find out how to set things up this way. Under
> > KDE 3.5 (on Debian etch), there was the possibility to use a CUPS server
> > on an arbitrary host instead of just localhost. How can I achieve this
> > with KDE 4?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Wolfgang
>
> I don't think you have to do anything. I have a PC in my house with a
> printer connected which is running a standard installation. I did no
> configuration other than connect the printer and install gutenprint (since
> it's an Epson printer). When I boot my laptop, also running a completely
> standard installation, it finds the remote printer automatically.

Hmm, I don’t know how this works. I can only say that it doesn’t work at my 
employer’s.

> The one thing I have noticed is that I must power the printer up *after* I
> boot the machine which is running the server. If I power the printer up
> first, no machine will recognise it.

Weird. And I cannot switch of the department’s printer everytime I’ve booted 
my computer. :-( 

> Mark

There must be a way to tell KDE which CUPS server to connect to. If there is 
none then it’s a serious regression compared to KDE 3.5.

Best wishes,
Wolfgang