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10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
Authored by: faceless on May 27, '04 06:56:09AM

I've seen so many convoluted solutions to this, but none of them seem to hit the fact that CUPS is supposed to be pretty much self-configuring. I'd tried all these routes too, playing about with the web interface and so in, and in the end completely scrapped my cupsd.conf file on the linux server and started again with "vi" and the man pages.

The result? It broadcasts the list of printers and OSX just picks it up by default. Note my machines are on the same subnet and protected by an external firewall, and my printer (HP Deskjet) is already working from Linux

Here's "cupsd.conf" on the Linux server

ServerName blah.blah.com
MaxLogSize 0
MaxJobs 10
Browsing On
BrowseProtocols cups
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
BrowseAllow from All
Listen 631
<Location />
Allow from All
AuthType None
</Location>
<Location /admin>
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
</Location>

Yes, that's it. I also uncommented the "application/octet-stream" from my mime.convs and mime.types.

After restarting CUPS on Linux, and going to Printer Setup in OSX, I get a "Shared Printers" menu, and underneath is my printer. Easy. No need to mess with OSX's CUPS settings at all.



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10.3: Print to a remote CUPS server
Authored by: mactolinuxprinti on May 07, '05 05:45:39PM

My mac can see the linux print queue, put the printer says

Network host '192.168.1.100' is busy.

when I try to print to it.

I have

Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.01,192.168.1.101

in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on the linux box.

Printing works fine from the linux box.

Can anyone suggest a solution?



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