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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer by traceroute66 on Friday October 04, 2024 @12:45PM (#41743187)
> which is/was available on MacOS for network printing

Very much IS there in the background.

See http://localhost:631/printers on your OS X machine.

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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer by mcculley on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:43PM (#41744921)
I thought the default was disabled at some point. On my macOS laptop, I get:

> Web Interface is Disabled

> The web interface is currently disabled. Run “cupsctl WebInterface=yes” to enable it.

But I cannot remember if I disabled that.

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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer by traceroute66 on Friday October 04, 2024 @05:25PM (#41745734)
> But I cannot remember if I disabled that.

Its ok, you're not going mad. ;)

They disabled it by default as part of security hardening a few releases back. Probably around the same time they stopped shipping PHP and other stuff.

CUPS is still running the printing in the background, its just the web UI that's been disabled. IIRC.

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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer by iknowstuff on Friday October 04, 2024 @06:31PM (#41746117)
Safari can’t open the page “‎localhost:631/printers” because Safari can’t connect to the server “localhost”.
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