[cups.general] Problems setting up the deviceURI

[Michael Sweet]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Rob Tanner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This problem is specific to the CUPS server included in the Mac server distro.
> 
> We are using a Mac Mini running 10.6.6 as a print server and it's working just fine. But now I'm trying to add printers incorporated into our print cost accounting system and that's not working.
> 
> Basically, I have a pseudo backend written in perl that does an SNMP query to the printer to get the page, sends the printjob via the real backend and then again gets the page count. The formt of the deviceURI is: accsnmp://socket://10.169.6.60:9100.  I'm also running CUPS on a Linux server and that format works just fine. But when I try to use this same format with CUPS on the Mac using the CUPS webgui, I get the error "Bad device-uri".
> 
> Any idea how I get around this?

Use a valid device URI?

Newer versions of CUPS are more strict about URI conformance; it is possible the Linux distribution includes a patch to CUPS that disables the URI format checks.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair