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smed

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Registered: 2013-06-22

Posts: 3

CUPS network printing help

I'm close to getting my CUPS server working, but there's one last step I can't seem to figure out.

I have two printers plugged into an Ubuntu machine that I consider my CUPS server. It runs CUPS and has the necessary printer drivers installed, and I can easily print directly from this machine to the printers. I then have 10 desktops running Arch with XFCE. If I open the Print Settings on one of these Arch desktops, go to server->connect, type in the Ubuntu server's IP, then my printers appear and things work as expected. The problem is that this information gets lost upon logout. I don't want users to have to do this every time they want to print something.

How do you save the server's IP on each of the desktop clients so that the printers are always available regardless of logouts or reboots?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,104

Re: CUPS network printing help

If you create a queue for each printer on one of the arch desktops using the cups web interface ( to the local cups server not the Ubuntu machine) or the command line tools does that queue survive reboot?
Or see Printer_sharing#Enabling_browsing.