Export and Import Printer configuration

[TechList]

Hello,

On Sunday 27 July 2008 11:59:07 pm Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 17:31 -0400, TechList wrote:
> > Right now there are two situation. One situation, is that I have 1
> > machine that acts as a print server with the printer physically connected
> > to it (e.g via USB port). Say I have 5 other computers on the LAN, I have
> > to configure printer on each of those 5 computer to use the same print
> > server, right ? How do I avoid doing "system-config-printer" five times
> > on those machine ?
>
> As Aaron said, once a CUPS server is configured to print to that
> printer, all other CUPS clients will use it automatically.  The only
> configuration you should have to do, if you want and need to, is pick a
> default printer if you have more than one available.

Okay, right now I don't see any printer on my laptop which is on the same LAN 
with the printer server. The printer server runs RHEL 4, and it's set to 
share its printer and allow anyone to use it. No firewall between these 
machine inside the LAN. Could it be because the print server runs older 
CUPS ?

>
> If you manually configure clients, you may disrupt the automatic
> feature.  I haven't done manual configuration for a long time, but in
> the past it'd stop it automatic printer finding, completely.  I think
> that, more recently, it just adds manually configured printers to the
> discovered ones.

My question is still valid. I have several printer at work which is accessible 
from the internet (HP Jet Direct). Suppose I have several machines at home 
that I want to configure so that I can print there, do I have to do it one at 
a time ? 

Thanks for the responds.
TL