I'm working in a wildly heterogenous environment so I thought I'd save myself adding yet another protocol by trying to get my TiBook (10.1/9.2) to print things to LPR printers. Fortunately all the printers I care about are postscript.
I had significant issues with Classic until packet traces suggested that Unix print servers aren't too happy about hosts called "Fred Nurk's Computer". Having kicked that out of the way I've got LPR printing from classic working.
It appears that the printing issues from OS X are significantly nastier and more subtle. A Digital Unix relay will happily pass them through but they're being silently eaten by LPRng on a linux machine. It appears that lprng has lots of issues with the MacOS LPR things, but I haven't been able to duduce (from the complete absence of logs or feedback) what's causing this one.
Has anyone else out there been relatively successful in getting OS X to talk to lprng?
I had significant issues with Classic until packet traces suggested that Unix print servers aren't too happy about hosts called "Fred Nurk's Computer". Having kicked that out of the way I've got LPR printing from classic working.
It appears that the printing issues from OS X are significantly nastier and more subtle. A Digital Unix relay will happily pass them through but they're being silently eaten by LPRng on a linux machine. It appears that lprng has lots of issues with the MacOS LPR things, but I haven't been able to duduce (from the complete absence of logs or feedback) what's causing this one.
Has anyone else out there been relatively successful in getting OS X to talk to lprng?