Mystery printer in firefox under Ubuntu 14.04.5

[Brian]

On Thu 16 Mar 2017 at 21:36:19 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:38:17 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Well, the Centos's avahi-daemon is not reporting the printer, but the 
> avahi-daemon on Ubuntu server (and the Ubuntu workstations are).  If the avahi 
> daemon is not running, will that cause other problems?

Dunno. You'll lose mDNS/DNS-SD resolution on the network. 'apt-cache
rdepends avahi-daemon' might help you decide.

You could rejig the setup and use cups-browsed on the workstations, of
course, and activate AirPrint on the colour printer. Any i-device users
might thank you for this.

-- 
Brian.