[CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-06 Thread Robert Nichols

How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers advertised by CUPS on the 
network? In CentOS 6, this was just a matter in a checkbox "Show printers shared by 
other systems" on the CUPS Admin page. Is this function still available somehow? 
Manually adding all the shared printers on every client would be painful.

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Re: [CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-06 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS

Am 06.01.20 um 22:44 schrieb Robert Nichols:
How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers 
advertised by CUPS on the network? In CentOS 6, this was just a matter 
in a checkbox "Show printers shared by other systems" on the CUPS Admin 
page. Is this function still available somehow? Manually adding all the 
shared printers on every client would be painful.




I used:

http://localhost:631/

Is the print server running CentOS6?

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Re: [CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-06 Thread Robert Nichols

On 1/6/20 7:52 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:

Am 06.01.20 um 22:44 schrieb Robert Nichols:

How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers advertised by CUPS on the 
network? In CentOS 6, this was just a matter in a checkbox "Show printers shared by 
other systems" on the CUPS Admin page. Is this function still available somehow? 
Manually adding all the shared printers on every client would be painful.



I used:

http://localhost:631/


Yes, that's how I'm getting to the CUPS Admin page, which is lacking the option 
to use printers that the print server is sharing.


Is the print server running CentOS6?


Yes, and other systems make use of its shared printers just fine. It's the 
CentOS 8 CUPS client that doesn't offer to use shared printers.  Does CUPS 2.x 
perhaps have some hidden setting to operate as a client vs. as a server?  I've 
never had to configure that before.

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Re: [CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-06 Thread Robert Nichols

On 1/6/20 10:00 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:

On 1/6/20 7:52 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:

Am 06.01.20 um 22:44 schrieb Robert Nichols:

How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers advertised by CUPS on the 
network? In CentOS 6, this was just a matter in a checkbox "Show printers shared by 
other systems" on the CUPS Admin page. Is this function still available somehow? 
Manually adding all the shared printers on every client would be painful.



I used:

http://localhost:631/


Yes, that's how I'm getting to the CUPS Admin page, which is lacking the option 
to use printers that the print server is sharing.


Is the print server running CentOS6?


Yes, and other systems make use of its shared printers just fine. It's the 
CentOS 8 CUPS client that doesn't offer to use shared printers.  Does CUPS 2.x 
perhaps have some hidden setting to operate as a client vs. as a server?  I've 
never had to configure that before.


OK, I've found a workaround of not bothering with cupsd service locally and 
just putting a ServerName in /etc/cups/client.conf . That means there is no 
local spool to accept jobs if the print server or network is down temporarily, 
but for my use that's acceptable. End of story.

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Re: [CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-07 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS

Am 07.01.20 um 06:06 schrieb Robert Nichols:

On 1/6/20 10:00 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:

On 1/6/20 7:52 PM, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:

Am 06.01.20 um 22:44 schrieb Robert Nichols:
How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers 
advertised by CUPS on the network? In CentOS 6, this was just a 
matter in a checkbox "Show printers shared by other systems" on the 
CUPS Admin page. Is this function still available somehow? Manually 
adding all the shared printers on every client would be painful.




I used:

http://localhost:631/


Yes, that's how I'm getting to the CUPS Admin page, which is lacking 
the option to use printers that the print server is sharing.



Is the print server running CentOS6?


Yes, and other systems make use of its shared printers just fine. It's 
the CentOS 8 CUPS client that doesn't offer to use shared printers.  
Does CUPS 2.x perhaps have some hidden setting to operate as a client 
vs. as a server?  I've never had to configure that before.


OK, I've found a workaround of not bothering with cupsd service locally 
and just putting a ServerName in /etc/cups/client.conf . That means 
there is no local spool to accept jobs if the print server or network is 
down temporarily, but for my use that's acceptable. End of story.




I didn't spent to much time on this but it was necessary to infer the 
printer name on the remote site (well i know it but a ordinary user 
would not).


So to compile the URI check first the remote site via browser:

My spool name is HP_LaserJet (serverside), substitute it.

http://yourprintserver:631/printers/HP_LaserJet

If you get a printer page then your URI for the client is:

ipp://yourprintserver/printers/HP_LaserJet?version=1.1&encryption=never

this can be used to configure a local "raw" spool on the client via 
localhost:631 UI ... the key-values version and encryption are necessary 
because CentOS6 cupsd is quite "old".


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Re: [CentOS] Using shared printers in CentOS 8

2020-01-09 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 1/6/20 2:44 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> How do I let a CentOS 8 client make use of the shared printers advertised by
> CUPS on the network? In CentOS 6, this was just a matter in a checkbox "Show
> printers shared by other systems" on the CUPS Admin page. Is this function
> still available somehow? Manually adding all the shared printers on every
> client would be painful.
> 

Look into running cups-browsed and setting:

BrowseRemoteProtocols dnssd cups

in /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf.

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