Hi,
I have a printer linked to my Ubuntu server at home (sisko/10-ish), which is used for printing from anywhere in the house. It seems that the new AirPrint stuff in iOS4.2 can work with this, with a little jiggery pokery.
The links I have found on it so far are:
After following the above…
Sisko seems to have an issue with dbus and so is not appearing on the network ok – although it works for network printing from Mac OSX.
I also have a netbook running Ubuntu 10-something too – this seems to run dbus fine and appears on the network ok, but printing is not working…
Most importantly the printer shows up on the iPhone :)
Looks like I need to open up the CUPS security a little more…
Found this link which showed how to make OSX find CUPS printers:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76914
Specifically:
cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups
This link talks about amending papd config files, but doesnt seem to help:
http://www.zaphu.com/2008/04/29/ubuntu-guide-configure-netatalk-to-share-a-usb-printer/
[still not there yet, work in progress]
Wait a minute – its working! It takes ages to send it from the iPad/iPhone, but its appearing on the printer – yay!
PS Sisko is mainly used for Time Machine backups – http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-volume/
PPS I found this link with a script for generating the avahi service file, will give it a try.
http://www.sharedknowhow.com/2010/11/share-printer-with-airprint-under-linuxubuntu-10-04/
It seems to work – though just as slowly :(
Wonder if this is due to my misconfiguration (probably) or the Twitter RSS feed does not update in real time (perhaps)…
This time from the WordPress app :) – seems ok. iTunes reviews did not seem that good but reviews on Chomp were better :)