Package: cups Version: 2.2.1-8 Severity: normal Hi!
When trying to share my printers with my roommates through the CUPS web interface, I quickly found the "Share printers connected to this system" button and clicked it. And lo and behold, other Linux (and probably Mac, haven't tried) computers just see the printers and can print to it. Great! But when they do, they get this mysterious error message: "Filter failed". Searching for that error message on the web is a dead end: you end up with all sorts of errors with foomatic-db not being configured properly and so on. This problem is remote-specific: printing works fine on the local machine, just not from the remote CUPS clients. I have found this bug in the RedHat bugtracker that seems similar to the situation I'm seeing here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010580 This is another forum with the simple solution: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254352 .. which is to run the following command, in a terminal: sudo lpadmin -p HP-LaserJet-p3015 -m raw where "HP-LaserJet-p3015" is the printer name. It seems to me a little odd that I would need to do this, as a user. I would expect the graphical interface to do the right thing, or just not offer the functionality at all. In the RH bugtracker, there's a debate regarding whether this is an actual bug, as this seems to be upstream's behavior of choice, but I fail to see how this is an appropriate response... I am using what are mostly default configurations here and didn't do anything special on the remote computer. It seems to me it would be essential to be able to share printers through the GUI in Debian, out of the box. Having people go through the commandline to workaround such an issue seems to defeat the whole point of having that GUI in the first place. Or did I miss something? Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cups depends on: ii cups-client 2.2.1-8 ii cups-common 2.2.1-8 ii cups-core-drivers 2.2.1-8 ii cups-daemon 2.2.1-8 ii cups-filters 1.11.6-3 ii cups-ppdc 2.2.1-8 ii cups-server-common 2.2.1-8 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61 ii ghostscript 9.20~dfsg-3.2 ii libavahi-client3 0.6.32-2 ii libavahi-common3 0.6.32-2 ii libc-bin 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libcups2 2.2.1-8 ii libcupscgi1 2.2.1-8 ii libcupsimage2 2.2.1-8 ii libcupsmime1 2.2.1-8 ii libcupsppdc1 2.2.1-8 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.21-1 ii poppler-utils 0.48.0-2 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 Versions of packages cups recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.6.32-2 ii colord 1.3.3-2 ii cups-filters [ghostscript-cups] 1.11.6-3 ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.11-1+b2 Versions of packages cups suggests: ii cups-bsd 2.2.1-8 pn cups-pdf <none> ii foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db] 20161201-1 ii hplip 3.16.11+repack0-3 ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.16.11+repack0-3 pn smbclient <none> ii udev 232-25 -- debconf information: cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd cupsys/raw-print: true
