Bug#894664: cups: Libreoffice doesn't see my network printer
On Tue 03 Apr 2018 at 07:57:13 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> I have a printer connected via USB to a local server (running Debian
> >> stable as well). This printer is made visible to my clients by
> >> running cups-browsed.
> > For the server to advertise its printers with DNS-SD cups-browsed is
> > superfluous.
>
> I expressed myself poorly: the cups-browsed is running on the client.
>
> > For most applications and command line programs cups-browsed has to be
> > running on the client; seeing nothing at localhost:631 implies it is
> > not. Please give the outputs of
> >
> > systemctl status cups-browsed
> >
> > and
> >
> > lpstat -t
> >
> > on the client.
>
> % LANG=C systemctl status cups-browsed
> * cups-browsed.service - Make remote CUPS printers available locally
> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cups-browsed.service; enabled; vendor pre
> Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-04-02 10:30:23 EDT; 21h ago
> Main PID: 5174 (cups-browsed)
> Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
> CGroup: /system.slice/cups-browsed.service
> `-5174 /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
> % LANG=C lpstat -t
> scheduler is running
> no system default destination
> lpstat: No destinations added.
> lpstat: No destinations added.
> lpstat: No destinations added.
> lpstat: No destinations added.
Tentatively, this looks more like a cups-browsed issue.
/etc/cups/cups-browsed should have a line "BrowseRemoteProtocols".
Try uncommenting "LogDir /var/log/cups" and "DebugLogging file" and look
at /var/log/cups/cups-browsed_log after restarting cups-browsed. Is the
printer in there?
Cheers,
Brian.
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