[cups.general] CUPS, Kerberos, and ServerName

[Michael R Sweet]

Rick Cochran wrote:
> Michael R Sweet wrote:
>> All of the Apple GUIs now respect the client.conf file, so a per-user
>> ~/.cups/client.conf file can point to the per-user cupsd's domain
>> socket, and then everything works as before.
> 
> 
> gibbie> cat ~/.cups/client.conf
> ServerName page4.cit.cornell.edu
> gibbie> lpstat -a
> ansel-k accepting requests since Fri Jul 18 16:09:58 2008
> gibbie>
> 
> Print dialog box for Firefox says "No Printer Selected".  In other words, the 
> Apple printing system does not seem to know about "ansel-k".

Did you start Firefox before you created that file?

If you click on the "No Printer Selected", do you get a list of
print queues to choose from?

 > ...
> One thing I see in the error log is this:
> 
> Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/
> get_printer_attrs(0x8e6a600[7], ipp://localhost/printers/ )
> Get-Printer-Attributes client-error-not-found: The printer or class was not found.
> 
> What does this mean?  What do I have to do to get remote printers to show up in 
> MacOS X application dialog boxes?

The print dialog is asking for the attributes of printer "", which is
likely a bug.  It is harmless, but you can still file a bug at:

     http://bugreport.apple.com

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer