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Which peripheral, expansion, and storage buses does Lion
support? |
Lion supports Universal Serial Bus (USB), FireWire,
Thunderbolt, and Bluetooth peripheral buses; PCI Express (PCIe), PC Card, and ExpressCard 34 expansion buses; and Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA), Serial ATA (SATA), Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and Fibre Channel storage buses. |
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What is a device driver? What are three primary types of
device drivers? |
A device driver is software specially designed to facilitate
communication between Lion and a peripheral. Device drivers can be kernel extensions, framework plug-ins, or standalone applications. |
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How does Lion support third-party devices without needing
third-party device drivers? |
Lion uses built-in generic drivers based on each device class.
For example, generic drivers for scanners and printers can be used in lieu of official third-party drivers. |
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What is CUPS?
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Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) manages all printing
and faxing for Lion, including both local and shared printing. |
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What are PPD files responsible for?
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PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files are printer driver files
that tell CUPS how to communicate with specific printer models. |
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How do you share printers with other Mac and Windows
users? |
You can enable printer sharing for Mac clients from the Print
& Scan or Sharing preferences, but to enable authenticated print sharing to Windows clients, you must also enable users’ passwords in the SMB file sharing settings from the Sharing preferences. |
