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Leopard Issue: Managing Printers via OD/MCX

I have deployed a Leopard OD master and a few Leopard clients for testing MCX and client management.

I have noticed that when I delete or replace printers for OD groups using WGM, my client Macs will "see" (and use) the newly added printers as expected, but the clients still see older printers that I dont want them to have any more.


For example:


I have a OD group that has 20 Mac clients, all managed via MCX. THe group has 3 printers. These are HP network printers with no print server. Simple LPR connections. The printers show up in CUPS on the clients as mcx_1, mcx_2 and mcx_3. As a test, I removed the 3 printers in WGM and added 3 different printers. The next time the Macs logged into the domain, they had the 3 new printers as expected, but the print dialog box could still see the old 3 printers too (which were removed in WGM).

The older printers are no longer in ~/Library/Printers, but they show up in the CUPS admin page (localhost:631), as well as the "lpstat -p" command. Its as if CUPS doesn't understand that the old printers have been deleted. And as mentioned earlier, the print dialog "printer" drop-down menu still shows all the older printers too.


Is there a way to make sure the printers are purged before adding/ modifying managed printers? I assume the printer list shouldn't be growing out of control like it appears to be doing.

To be honest, I cant tell if this is a CUPS problem, a Apple Print & Fax problem, or an MCX/OD problem. MAybe this is a Leopard issue? I dont have any Tiger Macs to compare with.



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