[cups] Mac ppd differences when connecting via Wide-Area Bonjour vs local link Bonjour

[Michael Sweet]

James,

The Apple bug report web site is probably the place to start for Mac printing issues:

    http://bugreport.apple.com

That said, the default access for printer sharing is on the local subnet (Allow @LOCAL); for a print server across VLANs you'll want to enable sharing beyond the subnet, which you can do with the following command (on the print server):

    cupsctl --remote-any


> On Mar 6, 2017, at 8:43 AM, James Ketterer <jamesketterer at depauw.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on setting up wide-area Bonjour (DNS-SD) Mac OSX printing for
> printer discovery across VLANS. The goal is to allow our Mac users to add a
> network printer using the default method. I have my DNS-SD records set up
> and most everything seems to work fine, except for the fact that the
> correct ppd is not being loaded. From a Mac client that is on the same VLAN
> as the print server (using local link Bonjour) when I add the printer, the
> ppd field is populated correctly with what the server is using for the
> print queue. When I add the printer using the wide-area Bonjour the ppd
> field is populated with the "generic postscript printer" ppd.
> 
> Anyone familiar with this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer