Mystery printer in firefox under Ubuntu 14.04.5

Brian ad44 at cityscape.co.uk
Thu Mar 16 19:36:21 UTC 2017


On Thu 16 Mar 2017 at 15:16:06 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:

> OK, I am at the library now.  The "mystery" printer entry is: "NPI7659FE".

Looks like an HP device.
 
> The output on one of the workstations is:
> 
> adultpatron1.wendellfreelibrary.org% sudo /usr/sbin/lpinfo -v
> [sudo] password for heller: 
> network lpd
> network socket
> network https
> network http
> network ipp
> network ipp14
> network ipps
> direct hp
> serial serial:/dev/ttyS4?baud=115200
> network smb
> direct hpfax
> network dnssd://Brother%20MFC-9970CDW._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
> network dnssd://hp%20LaserJet%204200%20(0001E67659FE)._pdl-datastream._tcp.local/
					  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
A coincidence?				     NPI7659FE

> network socket://192.168.1.246

What is 192.168.1.246?

> network lpd://colorprinter/BINARY_P1
> adultpatron1.wendellfreelibrary.org% lpstat -t
> scheduler is running
> system default destination: BrotherColorLaser
> device for BlackandWhiteLaserjet: ipp://192.168.1.251:631/printers/BlackandWhiteLaserjet
> device for BrotherColorLaser: ipp://192.168.1.251:631/printers/BrotherColorLaser
> BlackandWhiteLaserjet accepting requests since Wed 15 Oct 2014 11:24:28 AM EDT
> BrotherColorLaser accepting requests since Mon 02 Jun 2014 03:16:19 PM EDT
> printer BlackandWhiteLaserjet is idle.  enabled since Wed 15 Oct 2014 11:24:28 AM EDT
> printer BrotherColorLaser is idle.  enabled since Mon 02 Jun 2014 03:16:19 PM EDT
> 
> Note:  192.168.1.251 is the IP address of the server running CentOS 6.

I'll stick with my previous opinion for the present.

-- 
Brian.




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