Comments on: Printer Sharing Windows 7 and Snow Leopard 10.6

By: James

James — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:23:03 +0000

After reading Mike’s solution 2009, it looked much more difficult then it really needs to be. After going thru all the comments Paul’s made the most sense. The link was the answer and very straight forward and not complicated. Although I did have problem because I did not realize that my computer had a workgroup when this was included for the url wha laaaaa I was printing to Canon MP210 printer.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:37:26 +0000

Shame on you Apple for not making this work out of the box like everything else.. oh wait… better read this! LOL…

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3049

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:24:43 +0000

This blog post gets nearly 200 visits a month. I surely hope Apple is working on this

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:34:31 +0000

Great fix. I had spent a good bit of time trying to figure out how to get Snow Leopard to use a printer connected to a Vista PC in my home network without success, and this worked perfectly. I think this fix just goes to show how useful it i to understand cups and know how to use the *nix command line when using a mac. It would be great if Apple would fix this problem in the OSX GUI considering how common it is for folks to want to do something like this!

Thanks!

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Adobe photo shop cs v8 — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:13:15 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:10:21 +0000

Worked for OS X 10.6 -> XP -> Epson Stylus Photo R300.

Fix may be a little intimidating for those with no ‘nix command line exposure but follow it step by step and it works.

THANK YOU!!!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:41:35 +0000

Mike,

Very handy walkthrough, thanks, it got my problem solved getting an OSX 10.6 machine to print to a Windows shared printer.

Your example refers to a file called “printer.conf” but on my Mac the file is actually called “printers.conf”.

Cheers!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:09:40 +0000

If you dont have a printers.conf then you didnt install the printer using a USB cable first. Try the directions from top to bottom again. It is that or you’re looking in the wrong place for printers.conf. You could try using the locate command to find it.

Example:
locate printers.conf

…gives me the following on one of my linux machines:

/etc/cups/printers.conf
/etc/cups/printers.conf.O
/usr/share/cups/doc-root/help/man-printers.conf.html
/usr/share/man/man5/printers.conf.5.gz

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:58:42 +0000

if you “kill x” you are ending a process numbered “x”. So by issuing the command “kill 1″ you killed the #1 process. That’s the process known as init. Without init, your computer is un-initiallized and thus reboots. You didn’t do any harm though, aside from possible disk corruption and data loss (of course). If you had sustained disk corruption, you probably would have been required to run fsck upon reboot. I think you’re going to be fine from what you’ve said.

Here’s where you went wrong. When you typed in “ps -ef|grep cupsd” you probably got two lines of output. One had the process number for cupsd, and the other was the “grep cupsd” process you had just started. Cupsd will generally start before process number 1256 so I believe you tried to kill the grep process, which had already ended because it stops after returning the results.

Here’s an example:

root 5127 1 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:11 /usr/sbin/cupsd
unkown 9655 9636 0 10:55 pts/0 00:00:00 grep cupsd

Here the output of running “ps -ef|grep cupsd”. The top line is the /usr/sbin/cupsd process (on my linux box). The second line is where I piped “ps -ef” into the grep command. Now if I try to “kill 9655″ it will say unknown process because it has already completed, however if I type in “kill 5127″ it will end the /usr/sbin/cupsd process instead.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:14:57 +0000

I love my MBP but this is crazy (I had no printers.conf).

The “Im a Mac” dude on tv clearly never had to do this:)