hilbert/cups repository overview

⁠cups-in-docker (with changes by malex984)

cups 1.7.1 & cups-bsd inside Ubuntu 14.04

make check CMD=bash

• No need to start cups deamon on host just for forwaring everything to remote printer: just set CUPS_SERVER to the CUPS server ip/name (or add ServerName ... to /etc/cups/client.conf)

• One can check the connection with server via telnet $CUPS_SERVER 631

• One can run sudo ./config_cups.sh "server ip/name" in order fix /etc/cups/client.conf and test printer status

• check printer data with lpstat -l -t -v -s -p

• check pdf printing e.g. with wget http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/cups/cups-136.9/cups/test/testfile.pdf && lpr testfile.pdf

• Error - add '/version=1.1' to server name means that server does not bind to the ip or hostname that you are using

• See CUPS error log: http://$CUPS_SERVER:631/admin/log/error_log?

• Local CUPS server should be network-shared (otherwise visible but not usable)

• it may help to add the following to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:

Listen *:613
ServerAlias *

• or maybe use config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 631, host: 631 in order to allow access to local CUPS deamon
• From inside a Vagrant/Virtualbox VM one may want to get the gateway ip: netstat -rn | grep "^0.0.0.0 " | cut -d " " -f10
• By default config_cups.sh will try to use dockerhost and $HIP
• May be helpfull: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/setup.html⁠