Phantom Bonjour queues

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Phantom Bonjour queues

I have tried playing around with print queues some time ago and now I want to give it another go. I realized that I have a bunch of phantom print queues hanging around being served out from my Xserve running 10.5.8. I know they are coming from that computer because when I shut it down the printers disappear. I know other people have had this issue. Anybody know how to resolve this issue?

PM Quad, PM Dual 2.0, PB 1.67, XServe Quad 2.8, FC Studio 5,6, MS Office 2004, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 3tb SCSI G-Speed, 1tb SATA Custom - Sonnettech,1.2tb Caldigit, 1tb fw800 Custom

Posted on Oct 4, 2009 4:05 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 4, 2009 5:44 PM in response to Ian L-F

Open Print Service under Server Admin and delete the ones you no longer want.

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Answer 2

Ian L-F Author

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Oct 4, 2009 6:38 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Oh geee....I never thought of that. I have cleared out every printer, reset the printing system, and restarted my computer and there are still four phantom queues.

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Answer 3

Oct 8, 2009 6:54 PM in response to Ian L-F

have the exact same problem. did the exact same ridiculously obvious fixes.

same deal. have ghost printers still showing up and confusing end users.

not acceptable.

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Answer 4

Oct 8, 2009 7:09 PM in response to Bryce Polly

figured it out...

in "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons"

you should see a bunch of files named :

"com.apple.atprintd.XXXXXXXX.plist"

"XXXXXXXX" being the name of the print queue.

delete those files and restart the server. might be able to get away with restarting just the mDNSresponder process. the office was empty so i figured i'd just restart the whole machine.

ta da! no more ghost printers.

most likely a bug though... in that the Server Admin utility isn't deleted those files out and preventing them from launching.

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Answer 5

Oct 8, 2009 7:21 PM in response to Bryce Polly

Deleting them in Print service gets rid of the printers themselves.

But if you have added them to Printer lists and made them available to Users, Groups, or Computer lists, they would also have to be removed from those lists.

In addition, when setting up print queues, you can add a printer to your LDAP Directory for improved visibility on the network. Those would also have to be removed.

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Answer 6

Oct 8, 2009 7:25 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:

But if you have added them to Printer lists and made them available to Users, Groups, or Computer lists, they would also have to be removed from those lists.

In addition, when setting up print queues, you can add a printer to your LDAP Directory for improved visibility on the network. Those would also have to be removed.

i did neither of those things and still had ghost printers showing up. the printers weren't listed anywhere.

deleting the LaunchDaemon files fixed the problem. for me anyway.

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