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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