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.
