<font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'm hoping there are enough people with
enough Macs on this list that maybe someone knows the answer to this. I've
run into a weird problem trying to transition from an OSX 10.7 server machine
as the print server in a primarily mac environment over to a linux print
server. The linux server is running Avahi 0.6.31, cups 1.6.1, cups-filters
1.0.25, and ghostscript 9.06, although going to earlier versions the same
behavior is evident. Switching between centos with custom RPMs and
fedora core or ubuntu with included packages also doesn't seem to affect
it. I personally prefer RHEL(and thus CentOS), but I'm not exactly
wedded to it.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">When adding the printer via bonjour,
on the OSX server, the printer shows up as the type "bonjour shared",
on the linux server it shows up as just bonjour. The service advertisements
show up as the same with an avahi-browse though. When you go to add
it, it sends an IPP request to the OSX server, which retrieves the PPD
at server/printers/Printer.ppd and installs it locally, but it doesn't
even attempt this on any of the linux alternatives. Dumping the traffic
off my laptop shows no immediately appreciable difference between the two
bonjour announcements that I can detect, and the main difference appears
to be that it doesn't even try to do the ipp get on the linux server.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Printing works fine, heck, airprint
works fine, but without retrieving that ppd, the printer options(IE: extra
trays) are never set and the drivers have to be installed locally if they
aren't included. You can, however, retrieve the ppd manually in a
browser, install it manually, and it all works. Installing all the
printers is somehow not an acceptable solution though.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'm stumped. Anyone have any ideas?</font>