The username and password Bob uses in this prompt are the domain credentials, bobsmith, known toPaperCut’s username list thanks to the server’s integration with your Active Directory domain. In this case, you can set up a print queue with an SMB connection that will prompt Bob for a username and password the first time he sends a print job to it. Bob can’t send print jobs using LPD because PaperCut doesn’t know a thing about bsmith. On the other hand, thanks to its Active Directory user/group sync config, PaperCut thinks Bob’s username is bobsmith. For example, let’s say Bob Smith’s MacBook username is bsmith. Maybe another limiting factor to using LPD connections is that people sign in to their macOS workstations with usernames unknown to PaperCut.
Maybe one of the limitations of using LPD at your organization is that you can’t or won’t set up the Windows print server with the PaperCut LPD service, which is totally cool. Well, we’ll keep this simple: use SMB when you can’t use LPD. Other attributes affecting print speed are things like the driver, whether the target queue is physical or virtual, whether the document is color or simplex, the document file type, and what program someone used to print the job. Protocol choice alone does not tell the whole story in relation to print speed. Windows Servers support SMB print shares by default. Windows Servers need a little TLC to support LPD print shares. SMB requires authenticating with a username and password known to the Windows Print server either as local or domain accounts. LPD sends a print job using the macOS computer’s current log-on name without a prompt. Submitting a print job does not require entering a username or password Support connections whether or not macOS workstations are members of the domain
The app gives me the option to Shift-click to still engage its special mode, however.įront and Center and may appeal both to those of us with memories of Flock of Seagulls haircuts and Ronald Reagan as president, but also new users who just find Apple's window layering blocks how we like to work in macOS.Support using the printer’s model-specific driver I want to click on the single window while keeping the other apps' window or windows visible, so I've excluded both of those apps (and Safari Preview). In my workflow, I often have a separate Safari window open while writing in BBEdit and vice-versa. You can opt to trigger window groupings for an app to bring it into the foreground only when you click a document window (Window Click) or when you interact with a background app in any way, such as Command-tabbing to bring an app to the foreground (Any Activation).įront and Center offers an Exclude tab into which you can add apps. The General tab of the app lets you switch at will between Classic (pre-Mac OS) and Modern window layering behavior. You can toggle between Classic and Modern, and choose whether activation happens with a click or any interaction with a background app. Like all Mac Gems, it has a single-mindedness that lets you add it to your arsenal while providing options to deploy it selectively. Front and Center is the result, co-created with Lee Fyock.
Mac OS X, continued in macOS, brings a single document window forward.Īfter relying on utilities for decades that gave him the capability he wanted, the end of 32-bit apps with Catalina-notably PCalc creator James Thomson's DragThing-required that he cause his own to come into being. System 7 through Mac OS 9 let you click a single window in a non-foreground application that manages multiple document windows and have the entire set of windows for that app come into the foreground. For Siracusa, that was pre-Mac OS X methods of window layering in the Finder. Then there's John Siracusa, a programmer, podcaster, and opinion-haver who has reasonable nostalgia, sharing a feeling many of us have that certain aspects of macOS that Apple abandoned or changed were better. Some people have unreasonable nostalgia for the good old days, when everything was somehow miraculously better-forgetting the invention of penicillin, modern electric cars, and ubiquitous internet access.