On Wed 24 Dec 2014 at 20:40:53 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 21 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: > > >It is impossible for a Wheezy client to discover the queues on a 1.7 > >CUPS server without the help of cups-browsed on the server. Please read > >the documentation. > > My experience proves that this is wrong: > > 1/ According the cups-browsed man, it seems to be needed not on the > server, but on the > client: > > cups-browsed - A daemon for browsing the Bonjour broadcasts of shared, > remote CUPS printers
>From man cups-browsed: 3. Broadcast local queues with the CUPS protocol. The README.Debian for cups may be enlightening. > Anyway, all my attempts to install it on my amd64 wheezy laptop failed > - it's not available for wheezy > - trying to add a jessie repo in source.list fails: > Failed to fetch > http://debian.ens-cachan.fr/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages > Hash Sum mismatch > - trying install with dpkg -i deb-file fails for dependency problems. cups-browsed for Wheezy will probably never be made available. It isn't needed anyway (please see above). > 2/ I (almost) solved the problem with the following actions, on the > client. > - remove the client.conf file If your aim is for the Wheezy client to be able to discover printers on the network automatically the last thing you want is a client.conf file. What *is* your aim? > - in cupsd.conf. remove ALL lines with Listen... or Browse...., > leaving only > Listen localhost:631 Removing all lines relating to browsing is a sure-fire way not to be able to discover printers advertised by the server. > After that, I was able to install my 2 printers (one with a direct > ethernet connection, > the other connected via USB on my desktop) with system-config-printer > (http://localhost:631/printers also works) With a correctly set up server (please see above) the only thing to do on the client is to enable "Show printers shared by other systems" using the Administration section at localhost:631. No installing is needed with system-config-printer. If you do not want automatic discovery of printers on the network please say what you do want. I'd be inclined to purge (apt-get purge libcups2) and reinstall cups to start with a sane cupsd.conf. > Now if I print 1 page on my USB printer, I get only 1 sheet(fantastic, > isn't it?) > Nevertheless, one problem remains: > After each print, the job remains in the queue, and the printer becomes > "not ready" > on the laptop (it remains ready on the server) and the following 2 > lines appear > in printers.conf > > Reason cups-ipp-conformance-failure-report > Reason cups-ipp-missing-job-state > > Google showed me a lot of analog reports, but no fix. > > So, for the moment, I have to cancel the job, and then issue a > cupsenable command > after every print command. "cups-ipp-missing-job-state" was reported in the error_log. It is an IPP error but it is difficult to say whether it is a result of your present setup or of something else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/25122014170930.59cc63540...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
