Bug#894664: cups: Libreoffice doesn't see my network printer
> So I cannot reproduce your problem. I suppose disconnecting the ethernet
> connection doesn't do anything for you?
No, indeed: using only the ethernet or only the wifi connection doesn't
make any difference (usually only the ethernet is up).
> > Avahi Resolver: Service 'HP OfficeJet Pro 8100 @ server' of type
> > '_ipp._tcp' in domain +'local' skipped, could not determine IP address.
> is (to me) a clear indication that something is wrong. My knowledge of
> DNS matters is sparse so I think it is time for some help.
Is "local" above meant to refer to the DNS domain appended to the host
(i.e. does it mean the complete host name that was tried is
"server.local")?
> Till, Stefan has provided quite a lot of information (is it enough?).
> Are we looking at a misconfiguration, a tweak to cups-browsed.conf or
> a bug?
Hmm... now I looked further into my cups-browsed.conf and I think
I found the culprit: I had "BrowseOrder Allow,Deny" in there.
I removed it and now the printer appears.
Not sure how it got there. Maybe it's when I tried to prevent those
"spurious" printers advertized by some local laptops from appearing, and
since I was testing this with `evince` I got the impression that none of
the BrowseDeny/BrowseAllow directives had any effect and left the config
file in this broken state without noticing.
It's also not clear why the debug log doesn't say that those printers are
simply "denied by default" and why it gives this odd "could not
determine IP address" instead.
But at least, on my side you can consider this bug closed as a "pilot
error" (tho I'll be happy to provide more info if you want to dig
further).
Thank you very much for your help,
Stefan
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