Joel Buckley wrote:
> Ghee.Teo at sun.com wrote:
>
>> I thought OpenOffice 2.0/StarOffice 8 has been made CUPS
>> compatible and does not needs its own directory to obtain
>> PPD files.
>>
>
> Are there plans to make CUPS the Solaris 11 default printer management?
>
see below
> The user interface to this is very simple and is the only printing system I
> found to be both (1) available on Linux & Solaris X86 and (2) capable of
> properly communicating with any printer I have gotten.
>
The printer not working may be largely a printer driver/ppd file update
issue. Several of the packages that supply printer drivers and ppd files
are woefully out of date.
> By default Solaris 11 ships with a seamingly unstopable (without preventing
> GDM from starting....) and unconfigurable IPP Listener.
> see "http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/faq/ipp-listener.html";
>
> Prior to IPP Listener, I was able to go to "http://localhost:631"; to conduct
> complete
> printer management with CUPS. Now this same page displays useless
> information about IPP and then forwards me to a IPP standards site. To get
> around this, I had to install CUPS from one of the non-Solaris DVDs and
> then place CUPS lp before /usr/bin/lp to get printing to work. Then,
> "http://localhost:631"; is still useless, but "http://localhost:631/printers";
> can be
> used to manage the printers with CUPS.
>
> How is one to punt IPP Listener off the box without preventing GDM from
> starting?
>
GDM should have absolutely no interaction with or dependency on the IPP
listener.
You can disable the IPP listening service with
# svcadm disable application/print/ipp-listener
The PAPI print commands that I will be delivering into Solaris shortly
are more or
less print service and print protocol agnostic. They obviate the need
to be replaced
with differing print service specific implementations if you choose to
run Solaris LP,
CUPS, or some other spooler on Solaris.
> Are there any plans to ship CUPS instead of IPP Listener on Solaris 11 DVDs?
>
No, however, once the PAPI client commands are delivered, I will update
and repackage the version of CUPS in the Companion so that it is
non-conflicting. I run both Solaris LP and CUPS simultaneously on
my system (for testing) using the PAPI client commands to interact
with either one.
> Where do I file the bug?
>
The RFE can be filed in bugster.
-Norm
