Bug#868728: cups requires do lpadmin configuration to share printers
Package: cups
Version: 2.2.1-8
Severity: normal
Hi!
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!
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.
I have found this bug in the RedHat bugtracker that seems similar to
the situation I'm seeing here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010580
This is another forum with the simple solution:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254352
.. which is to run the following command, in a terminal:
sudo lpadmin -p HP-LaserJet-p3015 -m raw
where "HP-LaserJet-p3015" is the printer name.
It seems to me a little odd that I would need to do this, as a user. I
would expect the graphical interface to do the right thing, or just
not offer the functionality at all. In the RH bugtracker, there's a
debate regarding whether this is an actual bug, as this seems to be
upstream's behavior of choice, but I fail to see how this is an
appropriate response... I am using what are mostly default
configurations here and didn't do anything special on the remote
computer.
It seems to me it would be essential to be able to share printers
through the GUI in Debian, out of the box. Having people go through
the commandline to workaround such an issue seems to defeat the whole
point of having that GUI in the first place.
Or did I miss something?
Thanks!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii cups-client 2.2.1-8
ii cups-common 2.2.1-8
ii cups-core-drivers 2.2.1-8
ii cups-daemon 2.2.1-8
ii cups-filters 1.11.6-3
ii cups-ppdc 2.2.1-8
ii cups-server-common 2.2.1-8
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61
ii ghostscript 9.20~dfsg-3.2
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.32-2
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.32-2
ii libc-bin 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libcups2 2.2.1-8
ii libcupscgi1 2.2.1-8
ii libcupsimage2 2.2.1-8
ii libcupsmime1 2.2.1-8
ii libcupsppdc1 2.2.1-8
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.21-1
ii poppler-utils 0.48.0-2
ii procps 2:3.3.12-3
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.32-2
ii colord 1.3.3-2
ii cups-filters [ghostscript-cups] 1.11.6-3
ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.11-1+b2
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 2.2.1-8
pn cups-pdf <none>
ii foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db] 20161201-1
ii hplip 3.16.11+repack0-3
ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.16.11+repack0-3
pn smbclient <none>
ii udev 232-25
-- debconf information:
cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
cupsys/raw-print: true
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