Mac client printing to Cups server on Linux…
So, I had quite a lot of head scratching today trying to get printing to work from my wife’s iBook to the spanking new installation of SUSE Linux 9.3 I put on my fileserver. It just wouldnt work, while my linux laptop printed totally happy in the meanwhile. The problem was OS X tried to use /ipp/printername as the URI, while CUPS was serving /printers/printername…
After a lot of googling I found out this mailing list archive where Andrew Schretter helps a fellow geek:
“Bill,
On OSX clients I’ve had to hold the Option key while clicking on Add printer. This brings up an advanced menu that lets you choose http as the protocol intead of ipp. Then you can specify the same URL as for Windows and it should work for the GUI. Why this little undocumented menu is hidden is beyond me.”
I think I can agree with the comment as well..
May 13th, 2005 at 22:12
That’s right, and that is how I got mine to work. However, this is no longer the case with Tiger 10.4. With Tiger, the printer will pop up in the new options you get to add printers. It was very easy. Add, select, OK. And that’s it. Granted, this should only work if you have the CUPS server setup to allow broadcast, which I do on my LAN, so Tiger was able to pick it up automatically. That hack of holding the Option key is gone and no longer required.
May 13th, 2005 at 23:58
Oh my god!
You mean I don’t need to edit files in /etc/ on my mac?
Of course on GNOME everything worked simply
May 14th, 2005 at 00:06
Stuff in Gnome does just tend to work. Lord knows this isn’t always the case, but a lot of the time it is. Makes me happy!
May 14th, 2005 at 00:19
Tyler: to my delight it seems like it is more and more often the case: stuff is clearly getting better and more polished on Linux. Which is awesome.
May 15th, 2005 at 09:30
Tuomas: It’s gotten much better ever since Gnome 2.6 it seems like. Maybe it’s just because I’ve been running Dropline Gnome since then. Those guys continue to put out a wicked nice Gnome distro.
September 21st, 2005 at 22:04
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August 16th, 2006 at 17:37
I just got a Mac. Some sort of Tiger.
Darwin 8.4.1 kernel.
I didn’t see an http option on the printer like I have on windows clients.
Just IPP.
Do I need to get IPP running for this?
Is there a way to print using HTTP?
Do I need to install AppleShare servers… ICK!
April 3rd, 2007 at 15:13
Well, thank-you very much, I didn’t want to have to tell my Wife in the morning that she still couldn’t print from here iBook
As one poster commented, stuff like this just works in GNOME now (on Ubuntu anyway). It really is becoming the best desktop to just get things done