Managed printers

[sirmacallot]

Hello,

A strange thing happening here.
Our OD master (10.5.8) hands out printers to our managed home users.
We configure the printers using WGM on a 10.5.8 workstation.
It all worked fine until 10.6 (BETA image now on 10.6.4) came along.
Now the printers nolonger get listed in the systempreferences printer / fax window…?
Localhost:631 shows them as MCX records perfectly and all applications work fine
after a command-P.
Listing only the ‘managed’ printers as specified in WGM in the mcx.plist.
But they odly enough don’t show up under systempreferences???

Any thoughts?

[zeb]

You’ve probably sorted this out by now, but…

Our servers are at 10.6, so I don’t have a 10.5 setup to test this on. In printer management for 10.6, there is an option “Allow user to modify the printer list (Not available in OS X 10.5)”. In my experience on 10.6 clients, if that option is unchecked, the printers will not show up in System Preferences like you described.

You could try going into details and manually editing com.apple.mcxprinting. Under “Always” add a boolean key “RequireAdminToAddPrinters” and set it to false. Of course, doing that will allow your users to modify the printer list…

So, I have no great solution, just experience to share.

[Author]

Posts