MacOS 10.5: printing to remote printers

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Nov 29 10:57:32 PST 2007


Christoph Litauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded my Mac to MacOS 10.5 containing cups 1.3.3. My cups
> printserver runs cups 1.1.23 under linux advertising its shared printers
> to my network. The old MacOS 10.4 "learned" these printers as every
> other linux client. 10.5 doesn't. Firewall is off, tcpdump "sees" the
> browsing udp pakets  but the error_log doesn't tell anything about
> adding remote printers. Are there any known problems with 10.5?
> 
> My cupsd.conf:
> 
> LogLevel debug
> SystemGroup admin
> SystemGroupAuthKey system.preferences
> Listen localhost:631
> Listen /private/var/run/cupsd
> Browsing On
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> BrowseAllow all
> DefaultAuthType Basic
> <Location />
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow localhost
> </Location>
> <Location /admin>
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow localhost
> </Location>
> <Location /admin/conf>
>   AuthType Default
>   Require user @SYSTEM
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow localhost
> </Location>
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot!
> 
> 

Your cupsd only listens to localhost:631 and thus silently
ignores everything coming from the outside.

Helge

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