Re: remote printing for an USB printer
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.
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