On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:59:21AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:36:26AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > > ... > But I did find where Gary Kerbaugh (someone I trust) explained it to > someone on the Unix forum. It sounds about like what I did so I'm just > copying his post for you. Now you owe me :-) > > ................................................................................. > > Hi Chris, > I've not done this with a Mac but CUPS is CUPS. Open the > /etc/cups/client.conf file on your Linux machine and change the > ServerName line to point to your Mac. That may be all you have to do > because the Mac's CUPS automatically adds the local printer for you. You > may have to define a queue for it; I'm not sure but I don't think so. > Also, you will probably have to authorize it on the Mac. The > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file on the Mac should have a line in it that look > like: > > Listen <Mac_IP>:631 > > where <Mac_IP> should be replaced by the IP address of your Mac, (not > 127.0.0.1) and similarly for <Linux_IP> below. Such a line should > already exist for 127.0.0.1. Just copy-and-paste in a new copy of this > line and change the IP address. Inside the definition of root directory > you similarly may need to add an "Allow From" statement: > > <Location /> > ... > Allow From <Linux_IP> > </Location> > > The directory definitions are modeled on similar definitions in Apache's > httpd.conf file. There may be more that is necessary; I'll see if I can > find more specific information that I've saved. If you have to do more, > please post it to this thread so that there is complete documentation > for others. Of course a consistent configuration depends on having > static IP addresses on your local network. > > I'm not really surprised that you didn't find much if you searched > for strings including Mac or Apple; this is a purely UNIX question. The > CUPS administration documentation can be found online at cups.org or > even on your own machine at http://localhost:631/ or on your drive in > the /usr/share/doc/cups directory. > -- > Gary > ~~~~ ...
This is a limited solution. By pointing /etc/cups/client.conf at the Mac you give up the possibility of having the Debian box using printers that are connected to other hosts than the Mac. From the header of /etc/cups/client.conf # ServerName: the hostname of your server. By default CUPS will use the # hostname of the system or the value of the CUPS_SERVER environment # variable. ONLY ONE SERVER NAME MAY BE SPECIFIED AT A TIME. To use # more than one server you must use a local scheduler with browsing # and possibly polling. I have a postscript printer attached to my main Debian box, and color inkjet printers attached to a couple of Macs. One inkjet is notably better than the other, so I want to share the inkjets among the Macs, share the inkjet to the Debian for color picture printing, and share the postscript printer all around. I failed. But these instructions gave me some more things to try. In my setup the Macs do a bad thing which I would like to overcome: When I turn on print sharing, they readvertise all the printers they find on the LAN as if they were available from within their own resources. So, for example, when I browse, I see three listings of the postscript printer. And they readvertise each others' inkjets. Since this setup doesn't work anyway, I have not And I *did* give you a clue about starting services at 'login'. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
