[cups] Mac as cupsclient

hw hw at gc-24.de
Fri Jan 20 02:07:12 PST 2017


Michael Sweet schrieb:
> First, the client.conf usage of ServerName has been deprecated for many years now - see the NOTES section of the man page. The recommended way to do printer sharing (since CUPS 1.0) is to use printer sharing and a local client queue for each printer.

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation!

How would I get a local client queue?  I do not want to install a full blown
cups on each client.  I don´t want a local queue, either.

> The Mac implements application sandboxing, which means you cannot simply talk to any outside network service from a random application that would ordinarily not require access to the network.  Similar functionality is provided by AppArmor and SELinux...

Printer access usually requires network access.

> If you have Bonjour (Avahi) setup on your Linux CUPS server, you just need to pick the printer from the nearby printers list in the print dialog.  A local (pass-through) print queue will be setup on the Mac to talk to the CUPS server for that printer.
>
> If you do not have Bonjour setup, you'll need to add each printer either from the Print & Scan preference pane (to enter the remote server and queue names) or the command-line using the lpadmin program (a common enough usage since you can provide a script to users that sets up the print queues once).

We have made the printers known to the Mac via samba.  There didn´t seem
to be another way.  The Mac seems to use its own drivers or whatever, and
printing doesn´t work so well because there are all kinds of weird issues.
It´s just a typical Mac where nothing really works.  I was hoping it might
work if it could use the cups server as a client.

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>> On Jan 19, 2017, at 6:12 AM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote:
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> what do we need to do to make a Mac a client to the cups server?
>>
>> It´s simple with Linux and the client.conf file, but the Mac is
>> yet again incompatible.
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