[cups.general] shared printer discovery

[Michael Sweet]

The defaults for shared printers in Mac OS X changed in Leopard (10.5). To re-enable CUPS browsing run the following command in a Terminal window:

    cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=CUPS

On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Bill Johnson wrote:

> I have a printer attached to a linux machine running CUPS 1.3.11, shared on the network.  I have an iBook (OS X Tiger) running CUPS 1.1.23 which sees this printer and prints to it without a hitch.  I recently added a new MacBook (Snow Leopard) running CUPS 1.4.2.  The new machine does not see the printer on the network, and all attempts to add it manually have resulted in "printer does not exist" or "host is busy" errors.
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer