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:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PrintQueuesCUPS#Double_Filtering
>
> Reading that section just makes me more confused - while I am sure I
> could spend the next 15 minutes trying to understand all the subtleties
> of the CUPS internals, I fail to see how users are expected to learn
> that stuff just to share printers over the network.
Users are not sharing printers. You (and your server) are.
> I don't understand the trade-offs here: why isn't "raw" processing
> the default? What's the downside, if it allows automatic remote printing
> configurations?
The problem appears to be you have a client which isn't doing raw
processing. Sort them out,
> If I need to install cups-browsed on the client, why isn't that
> installed by default?
It is recommended by cups-daemon, so it is hard to avoid unless you
choose to.
> It certainly seems to me that we expect way too much of our poor
> users. I've been using Debian for over a decade, and I've been a DD for
> years now, and I took my about 30 minutes to figure out how to make this
> work. I consider myself lucky that I find the magic incantation at all,
> and would be very surprised if a normal user would manage to fix this on
> their own.
>
> I guess one thing remains unclear to me: is remote printing automatic
> configuration supposed to work without commandline intervention right
> now? Or are we expected to switch the queue to raw mode on the server
> when we want to share printers? It seemed to me this was the issue here,
> but maybe that assumption is flawed...
Remote printing works out of the box without commandline intervention.
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Brian.
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