Thank you for your report, Stefan.
On Mon 02 Apr 2018 at 23:15:18 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Package: cups > Version: 2.2.1-8+deb9u1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I have a printer connected via USB to a local server (running Debian stable as > well). This printer is made visible to my clients by running cups-browsed. For the server to advertise its printers with DNS-SD cups-browsed is superfluous. > My clients have no locally-configured printers (and hence no "default" > printer), and indeed when I go to "localhost:631" I don't see any printers > there. For most applications and command line programs cups-browsed has to be running on the client; seeing nothing at localhost:631 implies it is not. Please give the outputs of systemctl status cups-browsed and lpstat -t on the client. > Yet, this somehow works: e.g. evince sees my network printer just fine. But > Libreoffice doesn't. I haven't tried all applications to figure out which do > and which don't, so maybe Libreoffice is not the only one affected. Evince can read the server's DNS-SD broadcasts directly; it doesn't need cups-browsed. Libreoffice cannot read the server's DNS-SD broadcasts directly. > I've seen bug#867818 which seems related, but my `cups` is an older version > than the one that seems to be affected by that problem. > > I've also seen bug#772097, but that one seems older than mine (back around > that > time, cups-browsed would actually cause the network printer to appear in > /etc/cu0ps/printers.conf and in localhost:631 and Libreoffice could see it > fine > then). We'll put this on one side for the moment. Regards, Brian.
