Re: nsswitch what should come first

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Lee wrote: 
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
> > I do. If you assign an IP and a DNS name to the IP, all the
> > network printers I am aware of will work just fine. (They don't
> > care about the DNS name, either, but it's more convenient if you
> > don't want to remember the IP.)
> 
> Yep, a static IP address is assigned via DHCP and the name exists in
> DNS.  Now what?
> 
> if it's not obvious, I know appx. zip about linux administration, so
> hints about what to do after assigning a name and address would be
> appreciated.

Easiest thing to do: set up CUPSd on one of your machines. 

sudo apt install cups


Then read https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting and use either
the web interface on port 631 or system-config-printer in a GUI
to set up your printer. If it's recent, it can probably use the 
ipp driver; if it is middle-aged, it can probably be used via
the port 9100 lp system.

-dsr-