Tim Hardy

I don’t really know my way around OS X but I know enough to get frustrated at how unnecessarily difficult it is to set up access to a shared printer on a CUPS server from an iBook.

John Fry’s advice to set up your CUPS server (in my case my Debian box) to broadcast services on the local subnet is a lifesaver.

Forget about printer setup on the Mac, and just let your print server broadcast its services on the local subnet (or to specific IP addresses). Your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file should look something like this:

ServerName foo.bar.org
MaxLogSize 0
MaxJobs 10
Browsing On
BrowseProtocols cups
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
BrowseAllow from All
Listen 631
<location />
Allow from All
AuthType None
<location /admin>
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
</location>

Remember to restart CUPS with /etc/init.d/cupsys restart after changing the cupsd.conf file and you should have no more trouble.

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