VPN stops printer sharing

I have a USB printer connected to my iMac and it has printer sharing turned on. My wife uses this shared printer to print from her iBook. Sometimes the printer sharing stops working so that the iBook can't see the shared printer, and I believe this happens when I start a VPN connection on the iMac.
Is this a known problem, that VPN stops printer sharing? Is there any fix other than rebooting the iMac? Rebooting is the only way I have found so far, and that is quite inconvenient.

The only VPN experience I have is with Citrix on a PC. I'm unable to print in my local network while logged in, but I can print at the campus where I'm logged in. So, I think this is normal behavior - except rebooting to re-allow printing.

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My printer sharing is not working,I get this error "job stopped on server"

I recently turned on printer sharing on my mac mini that my printer is connected to. I am trying to prince from my mac pro. It shows the printer as an option to print and I have set it as the default printer. It can find the printer and starts to print however as it is spooling it gives me an error message of "job stopped on server"? I'm not sure what the issue is, I am printing to an HP Officejet Pro L7600.

The way 'Sharing" is used, it means the act of making the printer vailable for all to use. There is no special term for just using it once it is "Shared".
If not that, It could be one of two possibilities:
1) take the message at face value. Log on to the Mac that holds the printer, and make sure the printer is not "stopped". If it is, tell it to "resume".
2) something else is going on. This is most often caused by confusion over Printer setup. Things like the wrong protocol (access method) or a stale driver. Your printer manual should have Mac setup information to guide you.
Printer drivers change so fast that the one that shipped in the box will be stale by the time you open the box. Check the manufacturer's Web site for the current ones, or run Software Update to get new ones from Apple if needed.

Printer Sharing stopped working with 10.5.4

I was able to print remotely via Sharing to my Epson x8400 printer connected to my G5, no Isight iMAC, until I ran the latest update to 10.5.4. Epson sad the following:
Subject
Problem. Mac OS 10.5.4 Printer is not accessable for remote printing. when ac...
Discussion Thread
Response (Oladele M) 07/18/2008 03:22 PM
This issue seems to be with the Mac update, since this problem did not occur until after you updated. Please contact Apple.
For optimal performance Epson tests and supports a direct connection from the printer to the Host PC/MAC. Although other methods are offered by third-party vendors Epson does not support or recommend this. Epson cannot guarantee consistent data transfer through any intermediate third-party devices. Because of the amount of information sent to the printer during a print job, it is necessary to have uninterrupted and consistent data flow. If you are experiencing communication errors while connected through any such device, you may want to contact the manufacturer.
Customer (Patrick Allen) 07/15/2008 06:42 PM
Problem. Mac OS 10.5.4 Printer is not accessable for remote printing. when accessed from a remote computer two printers are presented in the printer shared window one is not acessable to print and the when the other one is selected it reports an error. I have loaded and run your 10.5.3 update I have confermed this problem on one other system, also a powerPC MAc running 10.5.4.
Best regards,
Pat Allen
[email protected]

I'm having the same problem.
My Epson CX-4200 printer won't print via printer sharing over my wi-fi anymore.
I have the printer hooked directly to my intel iMac running 10.5.4.
When I try and print from my Macbook via the default printer; the app I'm in at the time will crash before the print dialogue box opens up.
My Macbook is also running 10.5.4. I have a US Robotic Max-G router.
Network works great. File sharing still works.
I've made no changes to my setup. I was able to get a couple docs to print yesterday after deleting an adding the printer back to each system. It printed very slowly but did work.
This morning. Same problem; wont' print again. I tried repeating what I did yesterday. Still won't work.
Whenever I try and print from my Macbook; the app I'm printing from will crash. Very annoying.
This used to work without any problem before.

Printer Sharing Stopped After 10.5.7 Update

Shortly after performing the 10.5.7 update to an Intel iMac, I discovered that it is no longer able to share its USB printer. Local/USB (from the iMac) printing works fine, but other computers find themselves either "Looking for printer name" (when using the same print queue as before), or "Unable to get printer status (Forbidden)!" if creating a new Bonjour printer entry. The print sharing settings all look fine and as before on the iMac.
The update on the iMac was very clean: Checked with Disk First Aid (DFA), rebooted into Safe Mode (shift key down), ran the Combo updater, checked with DFA again, and repaired permissions (nothing needed to be repaired). There was no hint of a problem, other than this. Unfortunately, this iMac is the household print server and I've been unable to restore functionality using every trick I know.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to troubleshoot this one?
Thank you.
Message was edited by: Steve Davidson

Susan M wrote:
Have you tried deleting the printer and then re-adding it? Also, Printer Sharing is selected?
Yes, thanks. I tried all the basics:
I created a new printer queue, and shared that one instead (better not to un-do something that is working). Same result.
I turned off Printer Sharing, rebooted, turned it back on again. Same story.
There is something very non-obvious going on here. I just can't put my finger on it.

Printer sharing stopped working on two macs

Sonos support i, n diagnosing a problem on my primary iMac , asked me shorten my system name on the iMac that controls my HP printer. I did that. As a result, the printer sharing on my Mac Air ceased to work.Sure enough, the Mac Air was looking for the old IMac name. So I changed the " system name" for shared printing on the Mac Air. But that doesn't seem to restore shared printing. Anyone got ideas on what else I have to do ?

I recommend deleting your existing printer from System Preferences > Printers & Scanners, and adding it again. Better yet is to "reset the printing system" as described here: Mac OS X: How to reset the printing system
After you do that you will need to add the printer again according to the instructions here:
OS X Mountain Lion: Set up a printer

Problem with HP Printer Sharing?

I have an HP laserjet 1022 printer that has always worked shared. It's connected to my iMac via usb, and I have always been able to print to it with printer sharing. A few weeks ago however, the print sharing with my macmini and macbook wasn't working. Usually I delete and then readd the printer, but it didn't work this time. Also, now it recognizes the printer, but its trying to use the wrong ?driver? It's trying to use Generic PostScript instead of the normal 1022 it used to use. After my macbook was stolen, I tried to set the printer sharing up with my new macbook pro. That didn't work either. I called HP, but they said there was nothing they could do because it isn't a network printer, it's just printer sharing, and therefore a mac thing. What do I do?

Hi there, I just wanted to let you know what has happened with my printer since.
I called hp, and they said that because the printer didn't have some sort of extended care plan, that they would charge me $45 or I could call Apple. They said specifically that it was Apple's problem (yeah right).
Talked to the most friendly techies ever, and they spent hours on the phone with me trying a bunch of different ideas. Apparently, from what we can figure out, hp simply stopped updating the drivers. When I did try to download the 1022 driver from the website again, it downloads, says its installing, but never actually functions and just disappears. So after everything, even trying the original install cd, we determined that we just can't get it to work.
One interesting thing though:
The printer is plugged into my imac, and I was trying to print to it (using printer sharing) from my macmini, macbook, or macbook pro. None worked.
But, if I plugged in the printer to any other one of those computers via usb and tried to print wirelessly from the imac, it worked perfectly!
Hope things work out for you!

File and Printer Sharing Problem with WRT54G

I am currently having problems sharing files over my network. My setup consists of:
3 laptops (wireless)
1 desktop (wired)
WRT54G V6.0 router with firmware version 1.00.9.
All of the computers have File and Printer Sharing enabled, unique names, and are on the same workgroup. However none of the computers can see one another. When I try to view workgroup computers for my network places, the explorer window stops responding for about 30 sec. and then spits out a dialog with the error:
"Workgroup is not accessable. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available."
I think that this problem has something to do with the router, as I have been successfuly sharing files and a printer with these settings using a microsoft 802.11b router for over a year. After purchasing the linksys and swapping it out with my old router, filesharing no longer functions.
I have spent a little time browsing the forums and have seen other posts from people with simmiler problems, but was unable to find any solutions.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

I'm having the same problems as you are, I have 2 computers on wired the other wireless the router is in between and I can't access from either side, although I can ping and remote connect but just cannot share files across the network. I have looked all over the forums too and there saying to ditch linksys and do something else.
Its not you thats caused this it is the firmware and the router that have the problems.
My Specs:
WRT-54G
v5.0
That new firmware update 1.00.9 just isn't working right. I might downgrade my fireware to fix this problem.
Message Edited by justin2006 on 09-26-200612:24 PM

Printer Sharing with eMac, iMac, and iBook not working

Hello, everyone. I hope you guys can help me out with this:
I have an Epson Stylus CX4600 hooked up to my eMac via USB. My eMac prints fine with it. The eMac is getting its internet via an Ethernet wire going downstairs into my Linksys Router, which sends my Shaw internet to my iBook, my iMac, and my eMac.
I want to allow the iMac and iBook to access the printer over the network directly, so I can just print from those computers and have it come out the eMac printer.
I've looked at many articles on this. So far I've installed the drivers on all computers, plus they can all network to each other over File Sharing, so they are connected.
But I haven't been able to print yet. The most I've been able to do is get the files I try to print from the iBook and iMac to show up on the eMac, in its printer queue. Only it didn't show up for a LONG time. And when it did, the jobs automatically stopped and everytime I clicked start, it would automatically switch back to stopped again. The files would not print.
At this point, I want to get the iBook connected to it first. If I can do that, I'll try the iMac. But the iBook is first priority. I've tried making it connect to the Printer using IPP (IP Printing), and the result was... what I explained in the above paragraph. I also tried just ordinary Printer Sharing, but it said something close to this:
"Unable to locate eMac.local, Unknown host."
That hardly makes sense, because at that time I also tried getting the iBook connected to the eMac over File Sharing which worked. For some reason, the "eMac.local" and "iMac.local" files don't show up in my Network thing when I connect to them, or even when they're not connected. HOWEVER, I think they did at one point. I could swear I saw "eMac.local" and "iMac.local" in the Servers folder in the Network section of the iBook at one point. But it's no longer there.
Please help. I've described my problem as well as possible. What a long post. If there's any way to make my eMac, iMac, and iBook be able to print through my Epson Stylus CX4600 at any time directly, then I'll do it.
Help!

Yes. I did say that my eMac, iMac, and iBook are all
connected to the internet and networked to each other
over the Linksys router. I believe the router is
still on factory settings because we never really
"set" or programmed anything with it.
Mac OS 9.2.2 on the iMac, Mac OS X 10.4.8 on the
other two. IP addresses?
192.168.1.100 is what I would use to connect to the
eMac from the other computers.
This is the eMac's IP, correct? Did you type it into Network, or was it assigned by the router's DHCP?
192.168.1.101 is what I would use to connect to the
iBook from the other computers.
This is the iBook's IP, right? Again, fixed or DHCP?
192.168.1.102 is what I would use to connect to the
iMac from the other computers.
Same for this IP.
The iBook, as I've said, is wired. No wireless
connections to speak of.
Okay. Now, if the router is handing out IP addresses via DHCP, what range was it configured for? My Linksys, for example, is configured to hand out IPs in the range 192.168.0.10 to 192.168.0.254. It has the IP 192.168.0.1, so the IPs 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.9 are available for me to hand out as fixed IPs. If I was to hand out 192.168.0.100 as a fixed IP, the router's DHCP server would have a potential problem, as it might hand out that address too, and only one device can have a particular IP address on a particular network. If your router is handing out 192.168.1.100, .101, and .102 via DHCP, you could and probably do have a conflict if you've got those addresses set up as fixed IPs. In particular, if you have anything else on the network, including Bonjour-enabled devices such as printers, you're likely to have a conflict.
Best way to resolve a conflict, if any:
1 set all the Macs to either DHCP, or if fixed IPs are required, to a fixed IP outside the range of the DHCP range on the router. (Or you could just turn off DHCP on the router.)
2 check the router to be sure that DHCP is set the way you want it, and the DHCP pool is what you think it is.
3 shut down the Macs.
4 turn off the router, wait 30 seconds, turn it back on.
5 turn the Macs back on, one at a time.
On my Linksys, the way to set the DHCP pool is simple:
1 log into the router. (My router IP: 192.168.0.1. Yours would be 192.168.1.1.) Hit the 'Setup' tab. Verify the gateway IP. (Should be the router's IP. If it's not, something very strange is happening.) Verify the start of the DHCP pool. Verify that DHCP is on (or off, as you want). Verify the end of the DHCP pool. (My start is 192.168.0.10, and there are 245 IPs in the pool, so the end is 192.168.0.254. If I changed the number of IPs to 200, the end of the pool would be 192.168.0.209, and I'd be able to set the IPs 192.168.0.200 to 254 as fixed IPs if I wanted.) If your router allows for IPs to be reserved, you can set up reserved IPs for one or more of your Macs. (A reserved IP is an IP the router holds for a specific device. The network card in each computer has a specific MAC address; if that address is registered with the router, then every time that computer is turned on and connected it will get the IP that was reserved for it... so long as that IP is in the DHCP range and DHCP is turned on. Think of it as a fixed IP without your having to actually fix the IP.)

Windows Server 2008r2 Printer Sharing

Hi folks,
I have a Windows Server 2008r2 set up as my workstation and I'd like to share the printer with my wife's MacBook. I've set up Printing Services on WS2008r2 and enabled IPP, LPD and everything else I could think of.
The printer sharing works, our other laptop which is Win7 can use it normally, but setting up the share on a Mac is a whole new kettle of fish.
I couldn't get it to connect via IPP, Mac keeps insisting on port 631 even though IPP is running on port 80 here. I have no idea what to put into the address field, if I copy/paste the URL the Mac doesn't recognise it. If I just put in the server name it's happy but insists on connecting to port 631.
Next came LPD which seems to work, Mac connects to the server and picks up the printer. Which brings me to the next problem. If I use standard generic postscript driver then nothing happens, printer gets switched on on the server and stops. An event log entry reports an LPD error:
"The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service received commands in an invalid format from 192.168.2.106 and refused the print job. This can occur if the Line Printer Remote (LPR) client is incompatible with the Windows LPD service and Request for Comments (RFC) 1179. Try printing using a different LPR client."
The printer is a Canon Pixma iP5200R. If I switch the printer options from generic postscript to a Canon printer it will print but it only uses about 60% of the space, so everything is shrunk on the page. It does print the full content of the page, just makes everything smaller. I managed to get this far by selecting one of the BJC (Bubblejet) models from the drop-down list.
I've installed Canon's driver for iP5200 from their site but it's not available anywhere on the Mac. How do I tell the Mac to use a different driver?
I feel I'm getting close to fixing this, but now the problem is in Macland and I'm not too familiar with it.
Anyone got any suggestions? Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!

I'm going to apologize first because I don't have a real solution and my post will sound negative, but my experience may give some insight.
My experience is that Apple didn't get Windows printing "done right" until 10.5. Prior to that, I could never print to a Canon S800 printer attached to a Vista Ultimate machine. With the printer attached to a XP machine, I could print, but it would often fail. (Just no output and OSX saying printer was offline.) This was with a G3 B&W with 10.3 and a iMac with 10.4. And like you, I did try the IPP and LPD settings but just never got a usable setup.
Then I got a Macbook Pro with 10.5. Printing worked fine straight out of the box to the same S800 printer on Vista. Mac Mini with 10.5 worked also. Upgraded both to 10.6 and printing still works. Even a clean reload of 10.6 on the Macbook, Windows printing is fine. Also to a Epson R280 attached to the same Vista machine.
Windows 2008, having more in common with Vista and Win7, I'd guess that you may be having similar issues to me. I don't know of any fix, other than 10.5. If you have a friend with a newer Mac, then you can test it. (Otherwise, if you can upgrade your Mac to 10.5 or 10.6. But testing with a friend's Mac would save the cost of buying an OSX upgrade if it didn't work.)
Like I said, no real solution, other than possibly upgrading to 10.5/10.6. So maybe just a pointer to a different line of thinking. Good luck!

Windows Server 2008r2 Printer Sharing over vlan

Hi folks,
I have a Windows Server 2008r2 set up as my workstation and I'd like to share the printer with 4 new macs. I've set up Printing Services on WS2008r2 and enabled IPP, LPD and everything else I could think of.
The printer sharing works, our other laptop which is Win7 can use it normally, but setting up the share on a Mac is a whole new kettle of fish.
I couldn't get it to connect via IPP, Mac keeps insisting on port 631 even though IPP is running on port 80 here. I have no idea what to put into the address field, if I copy/paste the URL the Mac doesn't recognise it. If I just put in the server name it's happy but insists on connecting to port 631.
Next came LPD which seems to work, Mac connects to the server and picks up the printer. Which brings me to the next problem. If I use standard generic postscript driver then nothing happens, printer gets switched on on the server and stops. An event log entry reports an LPD error:
"The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service received commands in an invalid format from 172.16.8.106 and refused the print job. This can occur if the Line Printer Remote (LPR) client is incompatible with the Windows LPD service and Request for Comments (RFC) 1179. Try printing using a different LPR client."
The printer is a Brother hl-6050D/DN series. If I switch the printer options from generic postscript to a Brother printer it will print but it only uses about 60% of the space, so everything is shrunk on the page. It does print the full content of the page, just makes everything smaller. I managed to get this far by selecting one of the BJC (Bubblejet) models from the drop-down list.
I've installed Brother's driver for 5060D/DN from their site but it's not available anywhere on the Mac. How do I tell the Mac to use a different driver?
I feel I'm getting close to fixing this, but now the problem is in Macland and I'm not too familiar with it.
Anyone got any suggestions? Any help would be appreciated!+
Thanks!

I'm going to apologize first because I don't have a real solution and my post will sound negative, but my experience may give some insight.
My experience is that Apple didn't get Windows printing "done right" until 10.5. Prior to that, I could never print to a Canon S800 printer attached to a Vista Ultimate machine. With the printer attached to a XP machine, I could print, but it would often fail. (Just no output and OSX saying printer was offline.) This was with a G3 B&W with 10.3 and a iMac with 10.4. And like you, I did try the IPP and LPD settings but just never got a usable setup.
Then I got a Macbook Pro with 10.5. Printing worked fine straight out of the box to the same S800 printer on Vista. Mac Mini with 10.5 worked also. Upgraded both to 10.6 and printing still works. Even a clean reload of 10.6 on the Macbook, Windows printing is fine. Also to a Epson R280 attached to the same Vista machine.
Windows 2008, having more in common with Vista and Win7, I'd guess that you may be having similar issues to me. I don't know of any fix, other than 10.5. If you have a friend with a newer Mac, then you can test it. (Otherwise, if you can upgrade your Mac to 10.5 or 10.6. But testing with a friend's Mac would save the cost of buying an OSX upgrade if it didn't work.)
Like I said, no real solution, other than possibly upgrading to 10.5/10.6. So maybe just a pointer to a different line of thinking. Good luck!

No Printer sharing since upgrading to 10.3.9

Since upgrading my ibook to 10.3.9 I can no longer print via my DSL modem network (Epson stylus 6240). Printer Sharing worked great until this upgrade. In fact, now when I do attempt to print even from the iMac (where the printer is USB connected) I find it also cannot print unless I turn off sharing and delete the printer from the printer list and then re-add it. When I say it won't print, it attempts to open the connection and relatively quickly indicates printing has been stopped (exclamation point over the printer in the dock). Any suggestions? I've tried the usual troubleshooting stuff, uninstalling, reinstalling, etc.
iMac g4 and ibook g3 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iMac g4 and ibook g3 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

done

HP Printer sharing problem

I have a 27" iMac (iMac12,2) running ML 10.8.3 with an HP P1006 laserjet printer direct-connected to it. The iMac is on a network with a MacMini running SL 10.6.8, a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8, and an old G5 PowerMac running 10.4.11. I have the printer set up to be shared and I can print to it from the MacMini. The MacBook sees the printer but it won't print to it. The G5 doesn't even see the printer.
The iMac is new in the system and I'm just setting it up. The printer was originally connected to the G5 and all 4 computers would print to it that way. I moved the printer connection to the iMac because I want to take the G5 out of service. If I re-locate the printer connection to the MacMini, the Mini and the iMac can still print to it, but the situation is the same for the MacBook and the G5 - the MacBook sees it but won't print, the G5 doesn't see it.
All four computers are hard-wired to the network, no wireless base stations in the way. I've got all of the latest drivers I could find for all four machines. I could (possibly) understand the issue with the G5 since it's still running Tiger but I can't make any sense out of the failure for the MacBook to print since the set-up is identical to that of the Mini.
Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions?
Dennis

Hi there, I just wanted to let you know what has happened with my printer since.
I called hp, and they said that because the printer didn't have some sort of extended care plan, that they would charge me $45 or I could call Apple. They said specifically that it was Apple's problem (yeah right).
Talked to the most friendly techies ever, and they spent hours on the phone with me trying a bunch of different ideas. Apparently, from what we can figure out, hp simply stopped updating the drivers. When I did try to download the 1022 driver from the website again, it downloads, says its installing, but never actually functions and just disappears. So after everything, even trying the original install cd, we determined that we just can't get it to work.
One interesting thing though:
The printer is plugged into my imac, and I was trying to print to it (using printer sharing) from my macmini, macbook, or macbook pro. None worked.
But, if I plugged in the printer to any other one of those computers via usb and tried to print wirelessly from the imac, it worked perfectly!
Hope things work out for you!

Personal File Sharing and Printer Sharing difficulty

I hope someone can help me, this is really irritating.
I have an Intel iMac running OS X 10.4.11 and a motley band of other computers, Mac and Windows. For the past few months, I haven't been able to use Personal File Sharing or Printer Sharing to connect to the iMac. Some details:
1) Everything used to work about 6 months ago, but stopped... I don't know exactly when it stopped and I don't remember any installations/updates/etc that happened around that time.
2) I can't connect from a OS X 10.3 Powerbook to the iMac, but I can connect from the iMac to the Powerbook.
3) None of my Windows computers are able to do anything.
4. All of the computers have no trouble connecting to the Internet.
5. I don't know if this means anything, but the iMac beeps as soon as the desktop appears on startup and right before the desktop disappears on shutdown.
Does anyone have any ideas? Everything seems to be set up properly... the Sharing control panel shows that all Personal File Sharing, Windows Sharing, and Printer Sharing are all running.
Thanks,
Joe

Hi Joe, and a warm welcome to the discussions!
1. Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
2. Find the IP of the iMac in it's Network Pref Pane>TCP/IP tab. In finder, select Go menu>Connect to Servers..., then on the PB, type in afp://ip.of the iMac, like...
afp://10.0.1.5
afp://192.168.1.3
3. From Windows®, try...
smb://10.0.1.5
smb://192.168.1.3
5. Open Console as soon as it boots up, check for meaningful messages.

ASA Iphone, Ipad VPN client pre-shared key (PSK) special characters bug

I ran into this in a deployment of IPSec clients with apple ipad and iphone native vpn client. Here are details:
Cisco ASA 8.2.5 OS
Ipad, running 5.0.1
Iphone i4S, running OS 5.0.1
Special characters make your pre-shared key more secure, so i used a password generator app to make one that coincidently included a " (quotation mark). After configuring this PSK on a Ipad, i was unable to connect. I saw nothing in the ASA logs, indicating the Ipad didnt even try to connect.
The Ipad generated the following error message:
VPN Connection
A configuration error occured
OK Button
After searching for quite some time, i found this somewhat obscure reference to the bug:
http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/07/strong-passwords-can-hurt.html
Special thx to this guy!
So i started to test special characters to see what would work, adding in 1 character at a time. Here is where I stopped:
pre-shared-key !@#$%^&*()_-+=;:'<>,.
These characters worked in the PSK. If you are curious, and want to play, have fun. I assume the alphnumerics will work since those are pretty standard.
As a side note, here are a few more interesting items:
1) The " (quote mark) does work when you run the real cisco vpn client. This was successful on a Windows 7 laptop with 5.X VPN Client.
2) The ? (question mark) doesnt work as well, but that is a little easier to figure out because when you configure it on the ASA, context-sensitive help kicks in and knocks you off the config line.
3) Iphone I4S suffers from the same issue - doesnt like quotes.
4) Android is probably not affected by this bug, but I tested on an open source TUN driver- enabled adroid - not the bionic.
Hope that saves someone some time, sometime!
W

Thanks for the tip.
Help stamp out special characters in passwords. Their "strength" is a myth!
Explained nicely here: http://xkcd.com/936/

Firewall and Printer Sharing: Annoying Delays

Howdy, all:
We are running Mac OS X Server v10.6.2 on a Mac mini server with no out-of-the-ordinary settings. We're using it as a file, print and chat server in our small office. Here are the basics of the network configuration:
- Ethernet connected with a public, static IP address (manually assigned)
- Airport connected with a private 192.168 address (reserved DHCP address from the Airport Extreme)
We have two printers we're sharing with the Mac mini, both of which are directly connected to the server via USB.
Here's the issue: the printers work beautifully in all cases, for all users, whenever Firewall is stopped. However, when Firewall is started, client computers say "Connecting to printer..." for about a minute before they spool the job. (They do, in fact, successfully connect and spool, as expected, but the one minute delay [or so] is for each print job -- so if you send three things to the printer, you're waiting one minute between each job.)
I have done everything I can to figure out how to make this stop. Even when "Any" IP is given "Allow all traffic," and all rules in the "Advanced" pane are turned off, you still get this annoying pause. Only when the Firewall service is fully stopped do things behave exactly as expected.
We are using only IPP, and the printers are broadcasting over Bonjour exactly as expected. Furthermore, port 631 (and any other ports I could find documented as related to IPP) are also open on all network interfaces. But as I said, even when I have the Firewall service configured to allow all traffic on all ports, so long as it is enabled, you get this very annoying pause before the client can connect.
Totally at a loss. What information can I provide to get some definitive assistance in resolving this issue?
Thanks! Signed,
Waiting for my PrintJob

It's acting correctly - just 'different' than what previous versions did.
The three options listed are kind of in a goofy order because we mentally expect it to go wide open to totally shut or some sort of progressive range.
Instead, it goes from:
- Allow everything
- Allow nothing (except stuff the OS just HAS to have to work like a mac)
- Allow my apps to actually work too
... So things get auto-added to that box as apps get started and you tell it if you want it to be able to get things from the network. When you selected printer sharing, it went into that box like with the rest of the apps so you didn't have to add it yourself.

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