Re: Bug#868728: cups requires do lpadmin configuration to share printers
On Tue 18 Jul 2017 at 14:43:19 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2017-07-18 17:19:08, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > On Mon 17 Jul 2017 at 20:56:48 -0400, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> >
> >> Package: cups
> >> Version: 2.2.1-8
> >> Severity: normal
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >
> > Hello Antoine. Thank you for your report.
> >
> >> When trying to share my printers with my roommates through the CUPS
> >> web interface, I quickly found the "Share printers connected to this
> >> system" button and clicked it. And lo and behold, other Linux (and
> >> probably Mac, haven't tried) computers just see the printers and can
> >> print to it. Great!
> >
> > What do you mean by "just see the printers"?
>
> I mean that, when they choose the "Print..." menu in an application
> (e.g. Firefox or Evince), the printer shows up in the printer selection
> dialog.
That will (or should) happen if all your clients are using GNOME. Are
they?
> > My understanding would be that when you switch your server on, its
> > printers simply appear in the output of 'lpstat -a' (and in the
> > printing dialogs of applications) on client machines.
>
> I haven't tested the commandline version of this usage. I assume my
> users are not proficient with the commandline and like to use the GUI
> for things like printing...
Do you actually know what is happening on your clients?
> > This is achieved through the agency of cups-browsed and does not
> > involve the owners of these machines touching a single key on the
> > keyboard. If they have done, they are probably going about it in the
> > wrong way. Close down your server and the printers disappear from
> > 'lpstat -a'.
>
> Sure. The clients did not touch the keyboard: only the mouse. ;)
>
> >> But when they do, they get this mysterious error message: "Filter
> >> failed". Searching for that error message on the web is a dead end:
> >> you end up with all sorts of errors with foomatic-db not being
> >> configured properly and so on. This problem is remote-specific:
> >> printing works fine on the local machine, just not from the remote
> >> CUPS clients.
> >
> > We would need an error_log from a client to get to the bottom of this.
> > The Printing section on wiki will guide you on this. Please compress
> > the file before sending it to the bug.
>
> Understood, I'll see if i can find the time to send this.
It would be useful.
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