I have a 10.6 server that at one time ran print services, but we’ve since turned print services off, and have deleted all printers from the machine, due to having difficulties making it work consistently and repairing the print server that caused us to try it in the first place.
The weird part comes in the fact that the server, despite not having any printers, and not having print services enable, is still advertising the printer on Bonjour. Obviously, this printer doesn’t work any more, and it causes confusion for the users.
Anyone have any ideas why this would happen, or how I can get it to stop advertising the printer? I’m not afraid to use Terminal to fix things, I’m just not sure what to look for for print services.
Specs:
xServe running 10.6.8, running:
AFP (mobile home directories)
DHCP
DNS
Netboot
NFS (for neboot)
Open Directory (replica)
Radius
SMB
Software Update
OK, so this is annoying, I finally figured it out while writing this post, but I’m going to post anyway in case someone else comes up with the problem. Reading through some logs, from when the server was upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6, I found the following entries:
I [2010-08-27 09:12:10 -0400] …migrated: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.printservice_LPR_mDNS_192_1_66_199.plist
I [2010-08-27 09:12:10 -0400] …migrated: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.printservice_LPR_mDNS_SMS_Rm_107_Lab_Color.plist
Which match the names still advertised, I used launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.printservice_LPR_mDNS_SMS_Rm_107_Lab_Color.plist
to unload the plist, and away they’ve gone!
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