Re: Chooser crashes when I set up printer

Subject: Re: Chooser crashes when I set up printer
From: Richard Goldberg (rickg@yorku.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 16:39:41 EDT

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On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Christian Schmidt wrote:

> Richard Goldberg schrieb am 23.10.2000:
>
> > Any idea why it asks me to choose a ppd file even though I specify
> > one in the papd.conf file?
>
> Your Mac clients need a ppd file in order to let them know about the
> printer's capabilities.
> It is necessary to specify a ppd file for papd to supply papd with
> some information on the printer so that papd interprets incoming
> "orders" in the right way.
> (I hope I just got it right ;-)

I thought that by specifing the ppd in the conf file the mac would be
able to download the ppd from the server.

I guess that was wishfull thinking.

Thanks for the help

-Rick Goldberg

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