I got an email from a user that I'd just handed a new CentOS 7 workstation
to, wondering where all the printers were.
It took some investigation to find /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf, and see,
in it, at the very bottom of the file:
# NOTE: This file is not part of CUPS. You need to start & enable
cups-browsed service.
Which appears to be brand new with 7, and I have not seen any mention of it.
Enabled and started, and the network printers are visible on the cups
localhost web page->printers.
mark
On Mon, February 1, 2016 9:17 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> I got an email from a user that I'd just handed a new CentOS 7 workstation > to, wondering where all the printers were. > > It took some investigation to find /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf, and see, > in it, at the very bottom of the file: > > # NOTE: This file is not part of CUPS. You need to start & enable > cups-browsed service. > > Which appears to be brand new with 7, and I have not seen any mention of > it. > > Enabled and started, and the network printers are visible on the cups > localhost web page->printers.Unrelated to the topic, but may be helpful for somebody who uses cups browsing option. I usually turn off cups browsing. Here is why: someone brings laptop to our network, and may have one of his/her printers "shared". Somebody else finds, sets it up, and happily uses it. Till the first person goes away. Then second person comes to me telling my printer doesn't work. Which is not my printer, in a sense I can do nothing about what the second person had done about that printer... Just my $0.02 Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Valeri Galtsev wrote:> > On Mon, February 1, 2016 9:17 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I got an email from a user that I'd just handed a new CentOS 7 >> workstation to, wondering where all the printers were. >> >> It took some investigation to find /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf, and see, >> in it, at the very bottom of the file: >> >> # NOTE: This file is not part of CUPS. You need to start & enable >> cups-browsed service. >> >> Which appears to be brand new with 7, and I have not seen any mention of >> it. >> >> Enabled and started, and the network printers are visible on the cups >> localhost web page->printers. > > Unrelated to the topic, but may be helpful for somebody who uses cups > browsing option. I usually turn off cups browsing. Here is why: someone > brings laptop to our network, and may have one of his/her printers > "shared". Somebody else finds, sets it up, and happily uses it. Till the > first person goes away. Then second person comes to me telling my printer > doesn't work. Which is not my printer, in a sense I can do nothing about > what the second person had done about that printer... >You're in a different environment. I guarantee no one's wandering in with a printer here. Plus, on our VLAN, we are the ones giving out IP addresses, and *only* to MAC addresses we know. We don't know 'em, they don't get on the network. mark