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CUPS configuration

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I just set up a CUPS server for my printers and want every computer in my home to use it. To connect to the print server with my Ubuntu 14.04 as a client which possibilities are there, if I don't want to use a client.conf in /etc/cups/

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Put the one line in each cups/client.conf

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ServerName cupsserv

Put a host alias cupsserv to your central hosts (e.g. CNAME to your DNS).

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