On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 16:25:40 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I have a HP photosmmart printer connected via USB to my Debian desktop. > On my android tablet,the "printershare" application found it immedialty, > without providing it any information (just: "look on the wifi network"). and > the installation was done in less that 10 seconds.
This shows you have the android correctly set up for printing. > On my wheezy laptop, it's almost a nightmare. I tried all documented methods This shows you do not have the wheezy client correctly set up for printing. > (system-config-printer, http://localhst:631/printers), and > no one worked. My last attempt was to add in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > "listen 192.168.1.12" > That seemed to work, as lpstat -a showed me all the printer > queues of the server, and I could succesfully print a job, but: "Successfully"? In what way? > - on the client, the job remains in the queues, and the printer is > marked as "stopped" > - on the server, the printer queue grows indefinitely, and the printer > spit page after page, until I cancel the job on the client, and all > jobs on the server. Either the job was successful or it wasn't. Which is it? Printing or no printing? > I have exactly the same problem on a second laptop, also running wheezy. You have both laptops set up the same way. > What can I try now? Enable debug logging on client and server; cupsctl(8). Print. Examine logs. Say what cups version is on the server. -- 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/20141220201814.gk19...@copernicus.demon.co.uk