On Tuesday 13 August 2019 14:15:58 Chris Albertson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:29 AM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 12 August 2019 17:28:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 11 August 2019 15:11:07 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > Ping... > > > > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > I just found out, mainly because I haven't needed to for a while > > > > until today, that my shared printers on this machine are now > > > > invisible to the rest of my machines on the local network. > > > > Probably dissappeared with the install of the now 11 month old > > > > "stretch test" iso on this machine. In about April of 2019. > > > > > > > > How can this be fixed? > > > > Fix: > > > > By creating in my home dir on each client machine, a ~/.cups dir, > > then. touching a client.conf in that dir and editing that empty > > client.conf to add "ServerName ipv4address" of this machine. And > > it Just Works again. Presumably only for me. > > This is why it so so hard to debug other peoples setups. They are so > different. > > On my computers, I have the home dir on a server and use NFS to mount > to each computer. This is probably a common setup. We did this > routinely with UNIX machines back in the 1980s so that people can walk > up to any computer in the building, log-on, and all your files would > be there. Set it up with automount. This works for Macs too as as > Mac OS is BSD UNIX > > That said, my printers both are not set up like yours. They are WiFi > printers so there is no need to set them up as "shared" because the > server runs inside the $80 printer/scanner. > I generally turn the radios off. One of my nearby neighbors likes to use my net allocation, at 80+gigs/month if leave it enabled. Smartfone or whatever, it walks right thru a fresh wpa2 setup 30 seconds after I enable the radio. Same story out in the garage with an rpi3b except I can see that traffic with wireshark. So that radio stays off too.
> > > The printers are marked as shared, and usable by me, and work > > > locally. > > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > > respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
