[cups.general] Java printing with CUPS

[Michael Sweet]

Michael Herdman wrote:
 > ...
> My questions on the above:
> 1. Surely the AuthType None idea is not an ideal solution,
> 2. I am sure I read somewhere that Jipsi is not required by recent releases of CUPS - is this correct?
> ...
> Although I have solved my problem, I would still appreciate your 
> comments, and replies to the two questions above.

I've actually had some discussions with Sun the other day; the issue
is that the default server address in CUPS 1.2 is a domain socket,
which Java does not support.  They will be implementing a fix for
that (fallback to localhost IP socket), but in the meantime you can
create/update an /etc/cups/client.conf file containing:

     ServerName localhost

to force your Java applications to use IP instead of domain sockets.

-- 
______________________________________________________________________
Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com