[cups.general] Mac OSX won't show cups printers in Applications

Henri Shustak henri.shustak at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 14:17:56 PDT 2010


> Running Mac OSX 10.6
> 
> When viewing printers through the web interface, I can see all the printers. When viewing the printers through system preferences I can see all the printers.
> But when an application is open, and you want to select a printer to print to, none of the printers are available.
> Interestingly when you use BrowsePoll servername:port
> You can see all the printers AND you can print to them. Unfortunately when using ldap you can only see them but not print to them
> 
> Why might this be?
> 

Are the print queues configured on the local machine or are they shared from the server? One way to test this would be :

(1) Discount the Mac from the network
(2) Reboot the Mac
(3) Check if the printers are still visible in the CUPS web interface?


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