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Leopard printing observations

Title: Leopard printing observations
I have a test Leopard print server up and running. Im trying to share out a USB Epson printer via IPP/mDNS and also Im trying to “push” out the printer via Open Directory to a groups of test computers on my LAN (also running Leopard). I have some observations:

1. I have noticed that Leopards print dialog box doesn’t show Bonjour printers dynamically in the “Print” box. You can see your current printers and of course you can add a printer (assuming you are an administrator), but you no longer can see/add Bonjour printers from the Print dialog box.


2. I have noticed that on some of my Leopard test clients that once I have manually added the printer queue from my Leopard print server (via IPP/Bonjour) to my test client, the Print and Fax Sys Pref Pane doesn’t think I have added the printer yet, but the CUPS admin page thinks that I have (and the “Print Test Page” from CUPS works too), and the actual Print dialog box in TExtEdit.app for example also see the print queue too, but when I go back to the Print & Fax Sys Pref Pane, the new print queue isn't there. If I look in ~/Library/Printers/, I see the <print queue>.app as expected. Obviously there is a bug in the Print & Fax System Pref Pane?


3. I have the Leopard test print server running on the same server as my test OD master server. The only 2 services I have on are print and OD. When I try and create a computer group in OD and add the print queue to the computer group, OD acts like it doesn’t see the queue, even though the USB printer is physically attached to the same computer. Any reason why OD wont let me publish the print queue on the same system that the print server is on?


4. Can someone explain why uses must be administrators to add printers in Leopard? Are there any ways to bypass this, or at least let users add printers but not have full local admin rights to the computer? I was hoping I could create a local group named “Print Admins” and add the local users to it as needed, then put a SACL on the “Print Admin” group so that the only “administrative” function they would have would be the right to add printers. But that didn’t work. Ideas? Does Apple have a document regarding this change? This must be the reason Apple removed the Print Utility from /Apps/Utilities/ too. (?)



 
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