[cups.general] cannot connect to CUPS server

[Michael Sweet]

Mark,

The way shared printers are handled on OS X is with local PPDs that have passthrough filters defined for the standard formats (application/postscript, application/pdf, text/plain, image/jpeg, image/png); you can copy the PPD from the server and change the cupsFilter lines to be:

    *cupsFilter: "application/pdf 0 -"
    *cupsFilter: "application/postscript 0 -"
    *cupsFilter: "image/jpeg 0 -"
    *cupsFilter: "image/png 0 -"
    *cupsFilter: "text/plain 0 -"

Then add the printer using the modified PPD pointing to the remote queue.


On 2012-09-20, at 4:12 AM, Mark Marshall <markmarshall8 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks. So is there any way round this? I need to be able to print to
> printers via the server in question (which I think runs CUPS 1.5, or
> earlier) on my Mac.
> 
> I've tried sticking the definitions in a printers.conf file, and
> specifying the server in a client.conf but haven't been able to
> extract anythng.
> 
> Any guidance appreciated.
> 
> M
> 
> On 15 September 2012 18:38, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
>> Helge,
>> 
>> On 2012-09-15, at 10:06 AM, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at acm.org> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> will it be possible to modify the sandox rules by an administrative user
>>> some day (instead of being compiled-in)?
>> 
>> 
>> That is unlikely since if it were possible then the first thing malware would do is disable sandboxing... :)
>> 
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