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10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
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
10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
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