Re: brave browser cannot print.
On Tue 14 Dec 2021 at 06:35:20 +0000, Tim Woodall wrote:
> Someone off-list suggested vivaldi which looks closer to what I want a
> browser to be - many/most things being configurable (and much closer to
> what firefox used to be) so I'm probably going to stop using brave.
> However, I've replied inline below to the questions.
> (printing works in vivaldi too)
Probably a good change in direction. Thanks for the info. I'll pursue
it for interest's sake.
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, Brian wrote:
>
> > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 18:11:55 +0000, Tim Woodall wrote:
> >
> > > I've installed brave-browser but it cannot print. I get:
> > >
> > > "The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly. Check
> > > your printer or try selecting another"
> > >
> > > This machine is using cups. The printer is on a remote host. Everything
> > > else seems to work, openoffice, firefox, chrome. Just brave having this
> > > problem.
> >
> > Looks like a problem with Brave and not the printing system. The remote
> > host is running CUPS? What is the make and model of the attached printer?
> >
> > > Anybody got any ideas? I'm using xfce on buster for this at the moment.
> >
> > Please give 'lpstat -t' and 'lpinfo -v' on the client machine.
> >
>
> tim@dirac:~ (none)$ lpstat -t
> scheduler is running
> system default destination: Samsung_SCX-4x25_Series
> device for Samsung_SCX-4x25_Series:
> ipps://cups:631/printers/Samsung_SCX-4x25_Series
This URI (device) and the others do not seem correct to me. For a
remote host with hostname HOSTNAME I'd expect a URI like this:
ipps://HOSTNAME.local:631/printers/Samsung_SCX-4x25_Series
Let's try setting up a print queue manually. Use 'ippfind -T 5'
and '/usr/sbin/lpinfo -v' to obtain a URI from the remote host.
Then a print queue with
lpadmin -p PRINTER_NAME -v URI -E -m everywhere
PRINTER_NAME can be what you want, for example, scxtest.
Test with
lp -d PRINTER_NAME /etc/nsswitch.conf
and from Brave.
--
Brian.
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