[cups.general] 2 Quest's: .rss syndication/internet printing

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Nov 30 09:53:00 PST 2007


Mitch wrote:
> I'm using the CUPS build that's included with Leopard (10.5.1), and I
> checked off every box for .rss alerts. I'm getting 404 errors when I
> try to read the resulting .rss link. I tried turning on web sharing -
> no joy. Anything else I should try?

Check the /var/spool/cups/cache/rss directory - the file will not get
created until an event occurs.

If you don't see anything there, check the error_log file for errors.

> Also, I turned on internet access for my printer - how would I direct
> a print job to my printer (attached to one of the Macs on my NAT'ed
> network) from a remote (internet) connection?

You'll need to setup your router to map incoming connections on port
631 to your Mac's IP, and then you can just add an IPP printer from
the client using the external address, the queue name "printers/foo",
and the generic PS driver.  "foo" is the queue name reported on the
system you are sharing from with the "lpstat -p" command (generally
the name you see in the print dialog with the spaces replaced by
underscores...)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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