Print Services: servername.local is "busy"

We will soon be getting some new Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)-only Macs at work. Since AppleTalk is no longer available to these Macs, I thought I'd set-up some Bonjour queues using one of our Mac OS X 10.5.8 Servers. (Of the 20 printers we have only three have Bonjour available.) The Snow Leopard clients can find the new printer I set up (however they cannot automatically discover the printer driver), but printing fails. As soon as a Mac OS X 10.6.1 client tries to print to this queue an error dialog appears in the printer queue in the Dock that says, "Network host 'SERVERNAME.local' is busy, will retry in 30 seconds." I'm fairly certain the queue should be configured for "SERVERNAME.companyname.net" not ".local". The server is set-up correctly in DNS (it's also the Open Directory Server) but something in the print services configuration must be off. I can't find any way to see or manually configure the queue...
-Doug

Did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the same issue. I haven't had much time to troubleshoot it yet though...

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Network host HPF.local is busy - Unable to connect to printer;

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Network host 'HPFBlah.local' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds...
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Yanomami:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. What you want to
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Printing problems - Network host is busy, will retry in 30 seconds . . .

Configuration: 3 machines on the network
1. iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (wired connection)
2. Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) server on IA64 with CUPS 1.4.6 (machine is called tusko)
3. MacBookPro with Snow Leopard 10.6.7 (wireless connection)
4. The server has a fixed IP address 192.168.1.10, the iMac is 192.168.1.12 (static also)
5. The MacBookPro is getting an IP address from the DHCP server in the router (Linksys e4200)
6. I can ping any machine from any other machine.
Procedure:
1. I set up a HP LaserJet 1012 on the Linux box using the CUPS GUI (http://localhost:631/)
2. CUPS shows the print queue as "idle, Accepting jobs, Shared, Server Default), I can print a test page properly from the server
3. The printer shows correctly as "HP LaserJet 1012 @ tusko" on both macs in System Preferences - Print & Fax
4. If I print a file to this printer from either Mac, I see "Network host 'tusko.local' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds . . ." this message repeats until I finally kill the print job
Since this is an all-Apple setup (CUPS being out of Apple), the solution is going to be something very basic that I am doing wrong (btw everything IS powered up) -- question is WHAT?!
I also tried connecting the printer directly to a USB port on the iMac, sharing it, and printing to the shared printer with the MacBookPro - same problem.
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi Greg:
Thanks for the response.
Sorry, I'm using IPP. As an experiment, I printed a test page from Firefox running locally on the server, and that prints fine. So I have pointed CUPS at the right printer driver.
The other thing I've tried is to reset the printing system on the iMac by control-clicking in the area below the listed printer in the Print & Fax dialog and saying yes to "are you sure" when it warns about resetting the printing system. That leaves a blank pane. Then I started Word,
and invoked print. It came up with no printer selected, but offered a choice of the HP. When I select that, I see messages about gathering printer info (I expect that's Bonjour doing its thing), and the printer re-appears in the Print and Fax pane. When I "Print", I'm back to the usual problem.
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Should I install Print Services as a role for a single server env no domain

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Hi,
Print Services enables you to share printers on a network and centralize print server and network printer management tasks by using the Print Management snap-in.
Print Management helps you monitor print queues and receive notifications when print queues stop processing print jobs. It also enables you to migrate print servers and deploy printer connections by using Group Policy.
Print Services Role
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc732378(WS.10).aspx
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How does one print to enterprise Windows print services in Yosemite? CUPS 2.0 problem?

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Then when you select to print for the first time using this printer you will be prompted to authenticate. Enter the account details, set the save to Keychain option and OK to send the print job.
This worked fine for me and creates the same queue as using the Windows add printer setting. Curious to hear if this gets your co-worker printing again.

Printing HTML with Java Printing Service(JDK1.4 beta)

Hi there!
I'm currently checking out the new Java Printing Service (JPS) in the new JDK1.4 beta. This looks like a very promising printing API, with amongst others printer discovery and support for MIME types - but I have some problems with printing HTML displayed in a JEditorPane.
I'm developing an application that should let the user edit a (HTML)document displayed in a JEditorPane and the print this document to a printer. I have understood that this should be peace-of-cake using the JPS which has pre-defined HTML DocFlavor amongst others, in fact here is what Eric Armstrong says on Javaworld (http://www.javaworld.com/javaone01/j1-01-coolapis.html):
"With JPS, data formats are specified using MIME types, for example: image/jpeg, text/plain, and text/html. Even better, the API includes a formatting engine that understands HTML, and an engine that, given a document that implements the Printable or Pageable interface, generates PostScript. The HTML formatting engine looks particularly valuable given the prevalence of XML data storage. You only need to set up an XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) stylesheet, use it to convert the XML data to HTML, and send the result to the printer."
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PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
aset.add(MediaSizeName.ISO_A4);
aset.add(new Copies(2));
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for (int i = 0;i<flavors.length;i++) {
System.out.println("Flavor "+i+": "+flavors.toString());
Selected printer \\MUNIN-SERVER\HP LaserJet 2100 Series PCL 6
Flavor 0: image/gif; class="[B"
Flavor 1: image/gif; class="java.io.InputStream"
Flavor 2: image/gif; class="java.net.URL"
Flavor 3: image/jpeg; class="[B"
Flavor 4: image/jpeg; class="java.io.InputStream"
Flavor 5: image/jpeg; class="java.net.URL"
Flavor 6: image/png; class="[B"
Flavor 7: image/png; class="java.io.InputStream"
Flavor 8: image/png; class="java.net.URL"
Flavor 9: application/x-java-jvm-local-objectref; class="java.awt.print.Pageable"
Flavor 10: application/x-java-jvm-local-objectref; class="java.awt.print.Printable"
As you can see there is no support for text/html here.
If anyone has a clue to what I'm missing here or any other (elegant, simple) way to print the contents of a JEditorPane, please speak up!
Reply to: [email protected] or [email protected] or here in this forum

Since you have 'printable' as one of your flavors, try this using a JTextPane (assuming you can dump your HTML into a JTextPane, which shouldn't be a big problem)...
1. Have your JTextPane implement Printable
ie. something like this:
public class FormattedDocument extends JTextPane implements Printable 2. Read your HTML into the associated doc in the text pane.
3. Implement the printable interface, since you have it as one of your available flavors (I'd imagine everybody has printable in their available flavors). Something like this:
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int pageIndex) {
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        g2.setClip(0, 0, (int)pf.getImageableWidth(), (int)pf.getImageableHeight());
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        return PAGE_EXISTS;
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public void setupPrintView(PageFormat pf) {
View root = this.getUI().getRootView(this);
        pv = new PrintView(this.getStyledDocument().getDefaultRootElement(), root,
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Here's my PrintView class that paints your text pane line by line, a page at a time, until there is no more.
class PrintView extends BoxView
    public PrintView(Element elem, View root, int w, int h) {
        super(elem, Y_AXIS);
        setParent(root);
        setSize(w, h);
        layout(w, h);
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        int viewIndex = getTopOfViewIndex(pageIndex);
        if (viewIndex == -1) return false;
        int maxY = getHeight();
        Rectangle rc = new Rectangle();
        int fillCounter = 0;
        int Ytotal = 0;
        for (int k = viewIndex; k < getViewCount(); k++) {
            rc.x = 0;
            rc.y = Ytotal;
            rc.width = getSpan(X_AXIS, k);
            rc.height = getSpan(Y_AXIS, k);
            if (Ytotal + getSpan(Y_AXIS, k) > maxY) break;
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    private int getTopOfViewIndex(int pageNumber) {
        int pageHeight = getHeight() * pageNumber;
        for (int k = 0; k < getViewCount(); k++)
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Can X serve provide print services across a router?

The technology folks upgraded the network in my school last weekend and put my server on a separate subnet from the eMacs that it is controlling. It still controls all settings but the client computers no longer see the server in Network. We can still get to it using the IP address. The big problem is that the Mac server no longer acts as a print server for the client computers. Is there a way to correct this other than putting the server and client computers back on the same subnet? Technology is reluctant to do that for some reason, something about their firewall. I believe their network software is Windows NT.
Dual 1.8 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

The answer to this is yes, you can access the print services from any machine that can "ping" the server. This doesn't appear to be configurable via the Apple interface applications, so the print services are generally restricted to machines on the same subnet as the server.
The easy way to make the print server available is to edit the cupsd.conf file:
/etc/cups/cupds.conf
If you scan through the file you find lines like:
BrowseAllow 127.0.0.1
BrowseAllow @Local
BrowseDeny All
You need to edit these settings to allow the other subnets to see the CUPS interface:
BrowseAllow 123.123.123.*
BrowseAllow 123.123.124.1/200
There are examples in the comments in this file.
Warning: read the CUPS documentation before you proceed with this editing, because an incorrect configuration will allow anyone to print to your machine.
A quick test of whether you can get in or not is to try this in a browser:
http://[printerserver ip]:631
If you are not authorised, then you need to try again with the conf file, if you get the CUPS interface then you are in.
Also, system updates may overwrite your conf file, so you may nee to keep re-editing the file.

OSX and wireless (third party) print server problems - 'host is busy' again

The setup:
MBP running OSX 10.5.2
Zyxel NSA-220 (with latest firmware) hardwired to a Lynksys wireless router (running Tomato firmware)
Canon PIXMA iP4500 with CUPS+Gutenprint v5.1.7 drivers
I'm trying to set up the NSA as a print server. I can ping the NSA, it shows up fine in finder and I can access the shares on the discs - all wirelessly.
However the Canon setup program can't locate the printer when it tries to align the print heads, so I tried using Print & Fax to set up IP printing, with LPD as protocol and the IP address of the NSA, selecting CUPS drivers rather than the Canon ones.
The issue comes when I try to print and get locked in a 'Network host x.x.x.x is busy' cycle that never ends. I switched from M$ about 12 months and think I'm reasonably computer literate but feel like a mac newbie when problems like this hit. Grateful for any advice.

I helped another postee with a SimpleShare NAS. Reading the user documentation for the device, it showed the Windows connections using smb, ie you simply browse to the device via Network Neighborhood, double-click then select the printer name.
To use smb on the Mac, you select Windows Printing when you add the printer, then browse to the workgroup, then the Zyxel computer name and then the printer share name. Note that if the printer share name has spaces and too many characters, it can cause problems so keep the name short, such as iP4500, and don't have any spaces.
With regards to the current use of LPD as the protocol, this will be the cause of the network busy error as the device probably doesn't support UNIX print services (which btw is what you need to enable on Windows Server if you were to connect the same way).
One final note. The recent Security Update 2008-002 stopped some users from connecting to their current Windows share. One workaround has been to add the user account information into the queue name. This can be done by modifying the view for the Print & Fax Add Printer dialog box, so that the Advanced Printing option appears. Control-click on the icon bar in the Add Printer dialog box and then select Customize then Advanced. Within this selection will be the option to use Windows Printing via SAMBA. This lets you add the printer with all the necessary info, such as the example following.
smb://NSAusername:password@NSA_IPAddress/iP4500
Once you have entered the queue name, you can then browse to the Canon Gutenprint v5.1.7 iP4500 driver.
HTH
PaHu

Unable to start Print Service

I think am facing the same situation as in this old forum post:
Error(1042006) Network error [10048]: Unable to connect
I tried to increase the Heap size of print Server (HyS9FRPrint) in registry to Xmx - 2048 MB and Xmx 2048 MB. After this I'm not able to start the PRINT SERVICE.
PATH: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Hyperion Solutions\Hyperion Reports\HyS9FRPrint: Xmx2048m and Xms2048m.
When I modify the Heap setting to Xmx1538m and Xms1024m, I'm able to start the print service.
Messages recorded in the EVENT viewer is copied below:
======================================================================================================================
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( HyS9FRPrint ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Could not initialize the Java Virtual Machine..
======================================================================================================================
Could you please let me know if I have missed any thing in increasing the heap size tp 2048mb. Is there any particular steps for the same?
Thanks,
Vinay.

It is 32bit windows process so maximum you will provably get it to set the JVM to around 1.6GB which you have already found, setting it any bigger and it wont start.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

Print Services won't quit

Hi all,
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The printer was sharing just fine until I tried to share it to a Windows machine. After I tried to start Windows Services, this operation turned off the network interface I was using to access the net. After I fixed that problem in the Network System Pref. Pane, the printer can't be shared to any of the local network macs that it was working fine on before. Not only that, I can't get the server manager software to stop printing services, either by the Server Manager Program or the command line. The print log returns:
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Anyway, I couldn't figure out where these config files for the Server Manager Program are to delete before I restart.
Any help or suggestions would be greatlty appreciated.
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My applet access the local default printer on the client. We moved to 1.4.2_08 recenlty and i am using the AccessController class inside the applet to access the local printer...It was working the last time we tested but today it started giving this problem ...
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How many printer can I host on an Apple server 10.6.8 in ServerAdmin Print service?

I had 53 printers recently (two weeks ago) on our printserver and kept getting the error message:
"The service has encountered an error. Try to refresh the view (printserver.local/Print). (kNetworkError)"
This message would come up multiple time while loading the Print service or the Printer queues in Print service.
I had 20 printers setup on this same server last school year and had no problems.
When we redesigned our network this summer, I had to setup the printers again as the IP addresses had changed.
after adding the original 20 printers and adding the other 30, I then started to notice an obvious slow down in ServerAdmin app while loading the Print service and the Print queues. The grey gear wheel showing that the system is processing, would never stop spinning.
It would take up to 20 minutes for the Print queues to load and even after they did load the gear wheel never stopped spinning.
When I would attempt to make a change in any Printer queue i.e. selecting a print protocol (SMB, LPR), the system would not Save the change even though the system allowed me to click the Save button.
So, any suggestion on how many printers I can effectively Host on an Apple server 10.6.8+?
Thanks,
Vince

Hi
I think your main problem may lie here:
"When we redesigned our network this summer, I had to setup the printers again as the IP addresses had changed"
Correctly resolving DNS is crucial for OS X Server's reliability and robustness of services. It needs it simply to resolve it's own name to its IP Address regardless of what service your running. If when making the changes to your network you made no allowances for this then you will experience this:
"The grey gear wheel showing that the system is processing, would never stop spinning."
With increasing regularlity.
To answer your question AFAIK you can add as many printers as the USB bus can support. If these are networked printers you're adding, and if it was me, I would not add them to OS X Server's Print Service.
HTH?
Tony

Printing chinese w/ Java Print Service API become garbled characters

I'm using XP platform and I've a plain text file on my drive.
Now, what I want to do is, to read the text file in, then print it, that's all.
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I did try to change quite a different ways to read the file, but the printout is still messy.
Is there anything wrong? Can somebody give me a help?
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For #1, indeed, it's my overlook, I've corrected it already.
For #2, it shows, java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1.
It's mainly because my printer do not support this flavor.
My printer supports only:
image/gif
[B OR java.io.InputStream OR java.net.URL
image/jpeg
[B OR java.io.InputStream java.net.URL
image/png
[B OR java.io.InputStream OR java.net.URL
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