printers on thin clients

[Stefano Rivera]

Hi Jonathan (2006.09.18_18:54:33_+0200)
> I had another hack, where I installed cups server in the LTSP chroot and
> configured it to listen only on the thin client that has the matching
> configured IP address.

My method for this is to turn the thin-client into a jet-direct style
server with inetd:
9100 stream tcp nowait lp /bin/dd dd of=/dev/usblp0

Then I give them a static IP address by DHCP, and point the central cups
server at them as if they were jet-direct printers.

SR

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