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> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:28:21 +0100, Brian wrote:
> Your problem (please correct me if I have not understood what you said) > is that applications, Iceweasel, Evince etc, still see HP_LaserJet_1020 > after the server is closed down. No, I meant: the server usually stays on until I go to bed, but the printer is switched off right away as soon as I no longer use it. Clients still see that printer, even after I switched it off. And: they also see that printer, if only the server started, with the printer still beeing switched off. >> >> BrowseAllow 192.168.1.1 >> BrowseAllow Server1 >> BrowsePoll Server1:631 > > Into unknown territory! What's wrong with the defaults? Your server is > advertising; the default 'BrowseRemoteProtocols dnssd cups' on the > clientworks well, What need is there for these? > One problem here: The advertising with the default values doesn't work since every line responsible for "Browsing" is disabled with a comment. For advertising to work on the client, I need at least one valid line with either the Printserver IP or the Printserver Hostname or the Printserver Subnet. >> >> AutoShutdown On >> > You have a reason for this? One which stands up to scrutiny? > Nope, let's remove this then, it has nothing to do with the issue at hand. > > What versions of cups are running on the clients? > Debian/Jessie on client & sever > 1.7.5 This means: it is newer than 1.6 thus needs the cups-browsed package to advertise network printers, right? A question here: Do I need to install it on the server as well? Because like I explained I only changed the client configuration, but I changed nothing on the server, which means: I installed both cups & cups-browsed there as well, but left the configuration unchanged as far as configuring the printer using the cups webinterface goes: > Find printer > select recommended driver > add printer > select share this printer > save changes > cups restarted. I'm not even sure I absolutely need cups on the client ... it might be enough to have cups-browsed installed there, in order to find my network printer. Can you elaborate on the role cups and cups-browsed share these days? Do both services have to run on client AND server? Because there is one other thing I noticed: apt-cache show cups-browsed Package: cups-browsed Source: cups-filters Version: 1.0.61-5 Installed-Size: 191 Maintainer: Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@lists.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-glib1 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcups2 (>= 1.6.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~) Recommends: avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.31-3~) Enhances: cups cups is not a dependency here, it's considered an enhancement... it might be worth a try to remove cups on the client ... I never connect printers there, they will never offer a printer, but always will have to discover a network printer. |