[TriLUG] apple mac books and ipp

[Ralph Blach]

Can you look at your ipp configuration and see what it is set to?

Also, can you look at the mac's ipp configuration file.

Thanks

Chip

Michael Kimsal wrote:
> my macbook can discover other printers, and has done so in my house and on a
> corporate network without any difficulty.  not sure what's going on in your
> situation.
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> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Ralph Blach<chipperb at nc.rr.com>  wrote:
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>> I was trying to set up my son's apple laptop to print to my linux desktop.
>>
>> He could not see any of my printers ipp system.
>>
>> I looked and discovered that apple does not allow listening port to be
>> anything else except localhost:631,
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>> Even when it is changed by hand.
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>> So it will never ever discover any other printers.
>>
>> Chip
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