Mystery printer in firefox under Ubuntu 14.04.5
Brian
ad44 at cityscape.co.uk
Thu Mar 16 23:38:17 UTC 2017
On Thu 16 Mar 2017 at 17:32:37 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:21:26 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > cups-browsed browses Bonjour broadcasts of remote print queues and
> > printers and sets up local queues for them. cupsd sees these queues and
> > displays them in an app's print dialog. Stopping or uninstalling
> > cups-browsed means remote print queues or printers will not be visible
> > in dialogs **via the agency of cupsd**.
> >
> > However, the GTK printing subsystem is capable of browsing Bonjour
> > broadcasts all by itself, without the need for cupsd. This is what you
> > are observing when you see the extra print queue. Examining the output
> > of
> >
> > avahi-browse -art | less
> >
> > should show the culprit. Does it?
>
> Yes. How do I stop it?
Stop avahi-daemon on the Centos server or on a workstation.
What did avahi-browse tell you about the culprit? You could post that
snippet from the output.
--
Brian.
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