[TriLUG] apple mac books and ipp

Ralph Blach chipperb at nc.rr.com
Tue Feb 2 20:17:09 EST 2010


Cristobal,

Macs run Cups by default.

Chip

Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Ralph Blach<chipperb at nc.rr.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Cristóbal
>>
>> I have a fedora x86_64 machine, running the latest cups.
>>      
> CUPS is how your machine knows how to talk to your printer that you
> plugged in. If you're having to mess with CUPS, something is wrong.
> Other machines on the network should probably get to CUPS (and hence
> your printer) via Samba.
>
>    
>> I did a wire shark trace and saw the ipp broadcast going out to the network.
>>
>> Below is my cusd.conf
>>      
> cusd.conf?
>
> I think you should be starting here:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/deployment-guide/f12/en-US/html/s1-samba-cups.html
>
> If you get stuck, honestly I think you should try Ubuntu, since it
> gives a very easy, pointy-clicky interface for setting up and sharing
> a printer.
>
> Cheers,
>    




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