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Skriven 2006-02-02 13:41:14 av RobertB. (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: CUPS and I
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From: "RobertB." <rb28@nyu.edu>

And I thought *I* had trouble trying to get Jaguar connected to my HP4MP via an
AppleTalk connection. Fortunately, it's been working fine ever since (had to
buy a bridge from Asante though).

r.

In article <43e13bac@w3.nls.net>, "Frank Haber" <frhaber@N0SPMrcn.com> wrote:

> For the 1-2 other Mac users here, and to irritate Adam, I post my
> misadventures with Mac printing, copied from elsewhere......
>
> --------
>
> None of my (Windows, shared) printers printed from the iBook, except the
> networked Brother MFC. After several days, I triumphed.
> I repost my path to and from perdition in the hope it may help someone else.
> =======
> This and only this worked for me on a peer Windows net with 6-8 mixed Win
> machines, some fixed IP, some DHCP, most wide-open, with four USB and
> parallel-attached printers of common makes, shared. Variations thereupon will
> be left as an exercise for the user.
>
> 1. Go to the web and get every Tiger hint you can from your betters. Drop all
> gold bugs in your possession through the eye of the skull. Pray. Then,
>
> 2. Set up the printer in the normal way with Tiger's GUI. The printer will be
> sniffed out properly, but any printing will fail with an
> NT_status_access_denied errmsg. Tiger's path is WRONG. It's apparently wrong
> in a different way from 10.1's, so don't get distracted by tips about THAT.
>
> 3. Leave Printer setup open, go to the CUPS web face at localhost:631 in any
> browser. You may be asked for user/pw. For me, short_username/pw worked. If
> it
> doesn't for you, as it doesn't for some, well, may God have mercy, etc.
>
> 4. Modify the printer path there to an smb address of the following form
>
> smb://Long Username:password@//computername/printer_name
>
> a. on a workgroup, the /WORKGROUP/ Tiger puts in is unnecessary.
> b. capitalization is important
> c. embedded spaces are required, trailing apparently not, and no
> doublequoting
> is necessary.
>
> 5, Now, you won't get out of the CUPS dialogue without changing your printer
> type to RAW and your datastream to raw(engl). Certain printer types are
> available there, but you'll be sorry if you pick one.
>
> Your printer is now properly pathed and authenticated, but you've lost your
> driver (PRD), so
>
> 6. Go back to Apple's GUI util and modify your printer.
>
> 7. Pick the CUPS driver Tiger had picked for you previously for that printer.
> You did write it down, didn't you?  It is CUPS or gimp, right?  If not, see
> 'perdition' and 'mercy', above.
>
> 8. The driver and the printer's thumbnail will change to the proper one.
>
> 9. Print. Rejoice.
>
> 10. (optional) Wonder about suicide if you ever have to do this on a domain.
>

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