In message <ofd8346214.264d1b0e-on85257ae2.005fa7fc-85257ae2.0060b...@terc.edu> , Nick Cammorato writes:
>I'm hoping there are enough people with enough Macs on this list that >maybe someone knows the answer to this. I've run into a weird problem >trying to transition from an OSX 10.7 server machine as the print server >in a primarily mac environment over to a linux print server. The linux >server is running Avahi 0.6.31, cups 1.6.1, cups-filters 1.0.25, and >ghostscript 9.06, [...] > >When adding the printer via bonjour, on the OSX server, the printer shows >up as the type "bonjour shared", on the linux server it shows up as just >bonjour. The service advertisements show up as the same with an >avahi-browse though. When you go to add it, it sends an IPP request to >the OSX server, which retrieves the PPD at server/printers/Printer.ppd and >installs it locally, but it doesn't even attempt this on any of the linux >alternatives. Dumping the traffic off my laptop shows no immediately >appreciable difference between the two bonjour announcements that I can >detect, and the main difference appears to be that it doesn't even try to >do the ipp get on the linux server. > >Printing works fine, heck, airprint works fine, but without retrieving >that ppd, the printer options(IE: extra trays) are never set and the >drivers have to be installed locally if they aren't included. You can, >however, retrieve the ppd manually in a browser, install it manually, and >it all works. Installing all the printers is somehow not an acceptable >solution though. Where is the ppd file located on the linux server, /usr/share/cups/model/? It that readable by whatever needs to read it? Also from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS it seems they want avahi started before cups. Is that happening in your setup? -- -- rouilj John Rouillard =========================================================================== My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
