[MacTUG] El Capitan Printing issues

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

I give up…

The way I have instructed users to add their own printer (Sys Prefs > Printers & Scanners > + button > IP and then enter address and queue and point to the driver) is now working again for El Capitan and printsrv.

I have no idea what was going on — I actually had two staff persons here ask me what was going on). If you remember correctly, it was trouble with El Capitan and not with earlier versions. No updates have happened to my test El Cap computers.

I am wondering if there was some weird networking thing going on. Julio, any updates that may have effected it on your end since this started (last week?)
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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-computing/about/people
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From: <mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca>> on behalf of Donald Duff-McCracken
Date: Monday, March 14, 2016 at 3:35 PM
To: MacTUG
Subject: [MacTUG] El Capitan Printing issues

I have been having issues setting up printers on El Capitan computers. It is reproducible on any El Capitan computer I try to install on. I will update a mac tonite from Yosemite to El Cap and see if the printers fail.

The server I am trying get to printsrv.uwaterloo.ca (a windows print server in IST). Currently I do not have another print server to test again that has LPR/LPD services turned on.

I can set up printers two ways and have it work fine — as long as the OS is not El Cap (10.11):

  *   With a unix command line (ran as root) such as —  lpadmin -p printername -v smb://print-server-name/printername -D printername -P /path/to/driver -o printer-op-policy='authenticated' -o printer-is-shared=false –E
  *   Sys Prefs > Printers & Scanners > + button > IP and then enter address and queue and point to the driver

To repeat, both of these work (and have worked in the part) with every recent OS other than the latest, El Capitan

So far I have only tested it with printsrv.uwaterloo.ca but I will try others.

Is anyone else seen this issue?


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