cups daemon dying

we are running cups on Mac hosts against a linux host running .23.  we are using a 
BrowsePoll server directive in the workstation cupsd.conf.  we have started to 
notice that in a number of cases we are seeing either the polld command disappear 
leaving a /usr/sbin/cupsd -L running or the polld command is still running but 
there is no cupsd process running,  and therefore no printers available.

The following appears in the console:

Nov 21 08:17:57 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/
MacOS/mcxd: cupsd mach_msg error (ipc/send) timed out

Can someone help us figure out why we are getting these time outs and what we 
can do to keep the daemon running during any loss of connection so we don't have 
to log in as ladmin to restart the daemon

get_printer_attrs: errors

my error_log is filling up with get_printer_attrs: resource name
'/printers/aprinternaameonaremoteprinterserver' no good!
Then, after 30-40 secnds, the job prints....
WHat is cups doing?

Tiger pdf printing issues

[cross posted to macosx-list and cups]

We have been printing without issue using a linux print server
runing .23 and a client.conf pointing at the linux box from
Mac OS 10.3 hosts.

We just brought in a tiger box,  edited the client.conf and
tried to print a pdf....  while I knew better than expect to
print from Acrobat,  I was dismayed to find that we received
the same error under Preview  number of printers served by a
linux server.

Just for grins I saved the file as a pdf on the desktop and
printed it from the command line....
lp -d printer -Tpostscript file.pdf
It came back telling  it was ignoring the print option and
voila,  out came the file lickety split.... 

the error_log log files are voluminous and we get the same
data over and over (wish I knew how to make sense of them ;=}
) but there are no jobs pending.  

everytime the error takes place I get a new error_log. I get
the following log entries, nothing more:

d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] CONTENT_TYPE = application/ipp
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7
con->data_encoding = length, con->data_remaining = 164,
con->file = -1
d [19/Jul/2005:16:29:06 -0800] ReadClient: 7, used=0, file=-1

Per User configuration

I would like to be able to have an individualized per user
CUPS configuration file so that I can limit what printers are
accessible to specific users.

I tried to limit printers via authentication in <Location
/printer/name/≥ and the GUI (Mac OS X) on Macs provides no
response and the command line does not seem to prompt either.
I set AuthType to Basic and AuthClass to System simply to get
the system to prompt.  

I also tried to just disable certain printers so that only
admins could enable certain printers.  The GUI provided no
indication that a printer was disabled.  I did notice that the
remote print server will prompt for password on the print
server to cancel jobs from a local host,  but when I tried to
enable a printer the OS reponded that there was a bash shell
error. 

no documentation on use of client.conf

[Crossposted to macosx-list]

On Mac OS X 10.3 we are trying to get client.conf to produce
the printers but of course, as this is just a configuration
file is totally unclear as to what will read this file.

Postings seem to indicate that this should work WITHOUT cupsd
running (though we can't imagine how), but when we try to 
kill -9 pidofcupsd it comes back up with a new pid (polld also
is now present.) And, no matter what we do, without adding the
BrowsePoll of the print server in cupsd.conf, nothing comes up
for printers.

I can find no explanation of a limited client server set-up
using client.conf save the excerpt below which comes from the
SAM and states:

Specifying a Single Server for Printing

CUPS can be configured to run without a local spooler and send
all jobs to a single server. However, if that server goes down
then all printing will be disabled. Use this configuration
only as absolutely needed.

The default server is normally "localhost". To override the
default server create a file named /etc/cups/client.conf and
add a line reading:

     ServerName server

cupsd.conf and authentication

Very strange..... as it turns out the machine we started
working on in fact lists AuthenticationAUthority as ;basic, 
but we still have no success.  I am still concerned that cups
is not reading the proper files.  The Mac docs indicate that
the OS no longer relies on /etc/password and /etc/groups. 
Where does cups look for user and group info and is that the
same place the gui maintains it?  We manage the hosts via
ladmin, but that does not seem to in the system group (in fact
I have my doubts as to whether cupsd.conf even identifies the
correct System group. Is there a Mac OS X specific howto
somwhere about how to configure SyetemGroup etc so that sups
correctly reads users and groups.

>>---- Original message ----
>>>Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:54:08 -0600
>>>From: Matt Broughton <walterwego@...>
>
>>>This is a known issue where CUPS can't gain access to
>>passwords for
>>>many or most users in 10.3.x.  There is an article at
>>><http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L191> that explains the
>>problem in
>>>more detail.  I have a "down and dirty" patch for this on
my
>>site at
>>><http://my.vbe.com/~mbrought/ShadowHash_Patch.html>.
>
>-- 
>Matt Broughton

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Re: Imagewriter II trough Keyspan on OS X

Ah! Now I remember what the keyspan adapter is for. Disregard what I 
wrote...

PTH

In article <mailman.1081957204.12987.macosx-list <at> linuxprinting.org>, Matt 
Broughton <walterwego <at> macosx.com> writes:
> 
> >Does anyone know why the print center sees it but doesn't recognize it ?
> >
> You cannot add a serial printer via the Print Center.  However, there 
> should be no need to manually add the printer if you downloaded and 
> installed the correct packages.  The ImageWriter package at 
> <http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/downloads/imagewriter-foomatic-1.2
-1.ppc.dmg> 
> will automatically configure the three ImageWriters it supports for 
> EACH serial port and AppleTalk port it finds(not including IrDA 
> ports).
> ...
> -- 
> Matt Broughton
> 

Minolta 2200 Desklaser and linksys router using DHCP on 10.3

Hello folks,

I'm 95% finished configuring my Minolta 220 Desklaser to run with OS X 10.3,
however I can't seem to get my router to recognize the printer, and hence, I
can't get an IP address to tell foo2zjs to print to and hence, I can't get it
to work.  

Anywone else out there have a similar setup to mine?  I'm currently using a
DHCP network.  My router's address is 192.168.1.1 (default setting).  I've
tried telling the printer to find this router address, but no luck.

How should I configure my router/printer so that I can print?

many thanks,

-rhett

Imagewriter II trough Keyspan on OS X

I'm under OS X.2.8
I've downloaded all the package from Linux (foomatic, PPD , 
ghostcript etc...)  for my old ImageWriter... and installed everything.

My print center recognises the Keyspan and I choose it in the dialog box . 
I choose Apple , then the Imagewriter II . 

The printer is on . 

But ... the printcenter doesn't want to add it to the list . I click and 
click and click, but it doesn't help . I wait and wait and wait .

Does anyone know why the print center sees it but doesn't recognize it ? 

Thank you forward !