Hi Clive, > For the last 4 days I'm having trouble with CUPS not working. ... > I could not see what's stopping CUPS from connecting. Can't 'see' any > of the printers both on my laptop and the PC.
Are all the printers accessed over the network? > Cups still not running. That's a different symptom. I'll assume you just mean CUPS still isn't spotting any network printers. > Have tried running 'Timeshift' and that worked on the PC, untill > I rebooted. What have you changed since the backup which Timeshift restored? Particularly regarding firewall rules as perhaps that's stopping access to the printers. For printer discovery, I think Avahi might be needed based on a skim of https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Troubleshooting so you could see if systemctl status avahi-daemon.service says Active: active (running) ... in the first few lines of output. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-01-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected]
