Mystery printer in firefox under Ubuntu 14.04.5
Brian
ad44 at cityscape.co.uk
Thu Mar 16 11:40:05 UTC 2017
On Wed 15 Mar 2017 at 17:36:18 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> For some unknown reason a "mystery" printer is showing up in FF's selection of
> printers. This printer does NOT show up in 'lpstat -t'. It is not in
> /etc/cups/printers.conf. And I know for sure that I uninstalled the (stupid)
> deamon that finds new random printers (don't need or want that sort of "user
> friendliness"). Is this a Ubuntu issue or a Firefox issue or a Unity/Gnome
> issue? I have not seen this on my CentOS machines, ever. It only seems to
> happen on the diskless Ubuntu machines I set up using DRBL.
Please post
1. The entry for this printer in Firefox's print dialog.
2. The name of the "(stupid) deamon".
3. The outputs of
/usr/sbin/lpinfo -v
lpstat -t
systemctl status avahi-daemon.service
4. The makes/models of printers on the network.
We assume you have a wireless-enabled network.
--
Brian.
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