[cups.general] How do I publish a printer

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jan 16 08:06 H.Blischke wrote (shortened):
>> I am configuring a server with SuSE-Linux 11.2
>> to be used as as a server in an Apple Network.
>> File sharing via AFP oder netatalk is working fine.
>> But: The printer directly connected via USB to the server
>> seems not to be published.

I don't know about Apple OS 9.2.

I assume that the usual "CUPS Browsing" ( i.e. CUPS server cupsd
sends information about his print queues to the network which
is picked up by listening cupsds on the client machines,
see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell )
is not supported by Apple OS 9.2.

In this case it would be useless to publish a print queue
on the CUPS server because there are no listeners running on
Apple OS 9.2 which would pick up the "CUPS Browsing"
information from the server.

>> The printer is a HP PSC. It prints perfectly from the
>> server directly, but my Apple G3 with OS 9.2 does not
>> show me the printer.
>> Is this an error while configuring cups or papd or
>> is my G3 with OS 9.2 simply not ready to work accordingly?
>
> See
> http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/2.1/htmldocs/configuration.html#printing
> especially the "cupsautoadd" parameter.

If it doesn't work via "cupsautoadd" (regardless what the cause is)
you could try to fall back to the traditional method and submit
the print jobs from the Apple OS 9.2 clients via LPD protocol
to the CUPS server.

On the CUPS server the cups-lpd (the daemon that accepts data
via LPD for CUPS) must run. The cups-lpd is started via xinetd.
For additional information see "man cups-lpd" and
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell


Additionally you may have a look at
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_from_Windows_to_Linux
to get some basic ideas and some analogy regarding
how to send print jobs from an operating system
without built-in CUPS support to a CUPS server
and how to print documents in proprietary formats
(e.g. from whatever proprietary office applications)
from proprietary operating systems to a CUPS server.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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