Re: CUPS, Sarge/Debian/GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 07:27:21PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (26/02/06 12:14), Paul E Condon wrote:
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > From: Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>
> > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:14:20 -0700
> > Subject: CUPS, Sarge/Debian/GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
> >
> > I have been attempting to get CUPS working in a mixed Sarge/MacOSX environment.
> > Actually, I have it working but my current solution is not to my liking.
> > My question is:
> >
> > Is there anyone out there who has Mac running OSX sharing a printer attached
> > to a box running Sarge, and NOT running netatalk/ATALKD-PAPD ?
> >
> > If you have such, will you please share with me the exact configuration of
> > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf ?
> >
> > Was there something other than cupsd.conf that you had to change to get it
> > working? What?
> >
> > I have been able to set up a situation in which the Macs can discover the
> > existence of the printer attached to the Sarge box, but I have not been
> > able to get jobs submitted from the Macs to actually print without enabling
> > printing in netatalk.
>
> I've tried this on a G4 here running OSX 10.2 and on a clients pb
> running 10.3. I set up the sarge servers (powerpc and i386) using
> samba/cups, see:
> http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html
>
> (I don't run nfs or netatalk but network all flavours on samba)
>
> and setup cups on the OSX clients by following:
> http://homepage.mac.com/william_white/print_to_windows.html
>
> Worked for me :)
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
>
Was samba a necessary part of your solution to the Mac/Linux
printing connection, or an adjunct to it that solved some
other requirement on your system?
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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