[MacTUG] Lion window's wireless printing just pauses the print queue

[Marlon A. Griffith]

Thanks Guillermo. The Eng. printing guy checked your suggestion and it looks as if things are set up correctly.

Marlon


On 17/11/11 9:08 AM, Guillermo Fuentes wrote:
> Hi Marlon,
> We had a similar issue here in Arts.
>
> We use LPRng . In our case, the problem was the LPRng printer permission configuration was blocking access from the wireless network.
> Adding the subnet 172.16.0.0/12 to the line "ACCEPT SERVICE=X REMOTEHOST=..." on the /etc/lprng/lpd.perms and restarting lprng fixed it.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Guillermo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Marlon A. Griffith
> Sent: November-17-11 8:49 AM
> To: macTug
> Subject: [MacTUG] Lion window's wireless printing just pauses the print queue
>
> Hello all,
>
> Yesterday, I set up a prof to print using wireless to an hp cp3225. I used the instructions on ist.uwaterloo/cs/omniprint. It did not work. After trying several things - i.e. different users, another printer, etc. - it still did not work. Finally, we booted from an external hdd with Snow Leopard on it, and low and behold, wireless printing did work.
>
> Symptoms
> --------
> * the printer queue was set up as per the instructions and this succeeded
> * when printing, you are prompted for your ADS or Nexus userid and password again and again
> * the print queue reported:
> ** connected to printer...
> ** possibly another message but it was displayed too quickly to tell
> ** the print queue paused itself
>
> The major difference, that I noticed with Apple's window's (i.e. samba) print dialog, was the change from "windows" to "windows printing using lspoolss." Anyone, seen this issue and solved it.
>
>
> tia (thanks in advance),
> Marlon