Here’s a way to add a dgp http printer to mac os (and configure it to deal with the abort-job policy problem):
lpadmin -p ‘MomonWood’ -E -o name=’MomonWood’ -v ‘http://wood.dgp.toronto.edu/printers/Mom_on_Wood/.printer’ -P ‘/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/HP LaserJet 2430.gz’ -o printer-error-policy=”abort-job”
I recently received a macbook which I didn’t have an account on, so I found the following instructions for resetting the password (from
http://www.macyourself.com/2009/08/03/how-to-reset-your-mac-os-x-password-without-an-installer-disc/ )
While I was experimenting with IPP printing last week, I found a link to a great site that explained how to fully customize the printer setup on mac os x clients. Here is a link to the article. The important thing is knowing that you have to add the “Advanced” Icon to the toolbar in the print options in order to add a printer with an arbitrary string (i.e. that starts with http, or includes username:password in the printer location). Instead of setting up a samba printer, I used it to add the http printer (which is what windows sets up instead of an ipp printer). It looks like it would also be possible to do smb authentication this way, with a string like the following:
smb://username:password@corman/Mom
I haven’t tried this out, but I will be trying this along with other options to see what the best print solution would be. Once I’ve finished I’ll add some instructions to the wiki.