2007-12-12

Printing from Mac (Leopard) on a printer connected to Ubuntu Linux

Here I found the solution how to print from my MacBook Pro on a shared printer which is connected to a Ubuntu (7.10) Linux box.

The printer on the Ubuntu box needs to be shared. The gnome printer administrations GUI tools are sufficient for this. Just enable the two network sharing and printer detection options.

Test from the Mac whether you can see the cups system on the Ubuntu machine: Open Safari at http://myubuntuhost:631. If you can see your printer. If not your Ubuntu printer is not working even on the Ubuntu system.

Since I upgraded to Leopard I could not see/access/configure the remote printer in any way, until I read the page linked above and made the following chnages:

On the Mac side, add/change these lines in the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:

Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseRemoteProtocols all
BrowsePoll IP_OF_YOUR_SERVER:631
BrowsePort 631


Then reboot the Mac.

Now when you try to print something you may notice that all your printers are gone on the Mac. But when I tried to select a printer a new printer was automagically added after a few seconds. The new printer had the name MYPRINTER @ MYMACHINE so it is easy to recognize whether this worked or not.

2007-10-24

Being brave ...

... sometimes means you *are* looking for trouble.

Obey the sign!

Germans like signs very much. Too bad this one is in english. :-)

USA



Ignorance is bliss ...

2007-08-30

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music:

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

This page is great: Samples from all kinds of electronik music, really *all* kinds. And a map how they are related and where they originated from. And entertaining texts explaining objective and not so objective facts. :-)

2007-02-27

Pendulum

Two great music videos:

Pendulum: Slam

The Prodigy: Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)

We're going to rock civilization! Yeah. :-)