On 28 Feb 2020, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 08:28:52AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have a networked Brother-HL5350DN printer which has worked fine > > with CUPS for over a year. Two days ago it suddenly refused to > > print on my desktop running -current I reconfigured the printer > > several times without effect. > > > > I then set up CUPS on a laptop running -release. It also failed. In > > both cases the printer appears on screen and I can queue jobs for > > printing as normal but they don't print. The printer itself is > > working normally from my wife's computer. I cam ping the printer > > without difficulty. > > > > I turned on debug and found this: > > [Job 30] Unable to locate printer \"BRN001BA92DB44A\" > > > > I'm mystified. Whenever I've set up the printer in CUPS previously > > it has always worked. The only clue I found was on Arch Linux where > > they talk about needing to set up avahi jn such cases, but I don't > > know if that is relevant here. > > > > Any ideas gratefully received. > > Can you share your configuration? > If it's a network printer, it could be that cups is trying to connect to your > printer using avahi which doesn't work on OpenBSD. You must make sure you > configure your printer using hostname or IP. > > -- > Antoine > >
Thanks Antoine. I've now got Cups working on my laptop, by setting socket://<printer-ip>. This is not yet working on my Desktop (-current) although the "printer not found" error no longer appears. I'm not sure which configuration I should post here - some of the files in /etc/cups? It's occurred to me that the problem on the desktop may have happened because on a couple of occasions recently after an upgrade I was unable to make the requested deletions (they disappared from the screen before I could do it). Tomorrow I'll try reinstalling Cups from scratch in case that fixes it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell https://www.acampbell.uk
