On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:31 -0700, jim barnes wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 07:07, Art Fore wrote: > > Ihave a laserjet 2300 connected to my desktop lpt0 port. I can print > > with no problem from the desktop. Went to Yast, Hardware, Printers, > > Other and setup to allow any machine on 192.168.1.* to access the > > printer and open port in firewall. Done the ipp permissions the same. > > Setup the Mac for ipp printer and select laserjet 2300 and the print > > queue name the same as on the desktop. Still am not able to print from > > the Mac. If I look at the print queue, it always says stopped. I can > > ping the desktop from the the Mac, so there is a connection. I can also > > start the printing of the file in the queue, but to still comes back > > stopped. > > > > Would appreciate any of you Mac enthusiasts to let me know how you got > > it to work if of course you did, or even if you did not get it to work. > > > > Art > > I recently worked through getting two mac laptops printing to a cups server > (>hp2200dn) running on openSUSE 10.2, from a wireless network crossing > subnets. > > The first one had osx 10.4.3. The printer add utility, using the ipp settings > worked first try. I had to watch /var/log/cups/error_log on the cups server > and catch the username denial, then add it to /etc/cups/printers.conf using > the AllowUser directive, being that the mac username was different than the > 10.2 username. cups restart necessary. > On the fly adjustments can be effected using the lpadmin command: > /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printername -u allow:foo_user,@bar_group > > > The second one had osx 10.3.9 and was more stubborn. Using the printer setup > utility, and selecting the ipp route again, the wrong path was sent to the > 10.2 server and the queue was not available. The error was: > from: /var/log/cups/access_log > 192.168.2.4 - - [27/Jan/2007:14:13:01 -0700] "POST /ipp/printers/Dilbert\ > HTTP/1.1" 200 302 Get-Printer-Attributes client-error-not-found > I couldn't get rid of the /ipp part, and it doesn't exist on the 10.2 server. > osx 10.3.9 didn't allow any other suitable choices to select. I finally > realizied osx was using cups, loaded safari > localhost:631, and added the > printer using the http://cups_server:631/printers/printer format and it > worked a treat! Username acknowledgment on the 10.2 cups printers.conf > neccessary again also. > I'll go straight to cups browser-based setup next time. > Watch your access_log and error_log for clues. > HTH, > -- > Jim Barnes > -- > Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; > if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long > -- > Linux 2.6.15-27-386
Thanks. I will try that. Hadn't thought of OSX using CUPS, but seem reasonable now that I think about it. Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
