[cups.general] MacOS 10.5: printing to remote printers

Christoph Litauer litauer at uni-koblenz.de
Thu Nov 29 23:45:41 PST 2007


Michael R Sweet schrieb:
> 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?
>> ...
> 
> CUPS printer discovery is disabled in Leopard; use:
> 
>     cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups
> 
> or just add a line to your cupsd.conf file:
> 
>     BrowseRemoteProtocols cups
> 
> That said, the new print dialog does not show CUPS shared printers
> by default - you'll need to add each of the shared printers you want
> to use (internally this just sets a "favorite" flag for the queue...)
> 

Thanks Michael, that brought all my printers back to Leopard! ;-)

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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