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10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
Authored by: budGibson on Feb 12, '04 05:24:10PM

Contrary to several comments below, there is a problem printing to printers served by CUPS servers that are not on your local subnet. Comments below that say "it just worked without any intervention from me" are clearly connecting to CUPS servers on their local subnet. Connections to CUPS servers on your local subnet do occur automatically. When the CUPS server is on a remote subnet, it is hard to get printing to the printers it serves to work from a Mac.

Now, if you have a CUPS server that is not on your local subnet, there is a simpler way to print to the printers it serves than described by the hint. Edit your CUPS configuration file, found at /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, adding the following line shortly after the line that begins # BrowsePoll:

BrowsePoll server.ip.address:portNo

Where server.ip.address is either the DNS name of the CUPS server or its numeric IP and portNo is by default the number 631 (check with your server admin if that does not work). Then, you need to restart cupsd (accomplished by me by restarting my Mac; in linux I would have just run the restart init script for cupsd).

Now, the printers served from the CUPS server will show up as shared printers on your Mac when you go to print. I had no problem getting a shared printer to stick as a default.

HTH,
Bud

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10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
Authored by: Fieldson on Mar 27, '05 10:44:10PM

Expanding on budGibson's response.
You also need to have

Browsing On

(and possibly)

BrowseProtocol cups

set in the cupsd.conf file on the client computer. Otherwise your computer won't look for the cups printer, even though you set BrowsePoll.

Cheers,
Gregory



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