Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sharing printers via Cups

[Dan Egli]

On 2/10/2021 4:44 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> I think I probably would have just bought a printer long before this
> point...
>

I guess you have money. As the old joke saying goes "I'm so broke I 
can't afford to pay attention."

Fact is, though, that a new printer would solve nothing because at the 
moment all that I'm doing is in VMWare on the Win 10 box that I stated 
before is not mine but I have permission to use. I'm trying to get it 
all set for eventual transfer to real computers. And the issue I am 
facing is an issue I'd face no matter what. I am _NOT_ buying a printer 
for each computer that will be there. So it's a matter of having a 
printer connected to one computer and having the others connect to that 
first server. Great. That's just what I'm trying to accomplish!

I even tried sending the job via HTTP and HTTPS. At that point the logs 
on Athena show a LOT of output like this:

D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Server address is "192.168.10.2".
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Accepted from 
192.168.10.3:35684 (IPv4)
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Waiting for request.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] POST /printers/ENVY HTTP/1.1
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active 
clients", busy="Active clients"
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Read: status=200, state=6
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] No authentication data provided.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] 2.0 Get-Job-Attributes 132
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] Get-Job-Attributes 
http://athena:631/printers/ENVY
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Returning IPP successful-ok 
for Get-Job-Attributes (http://athena:631/printers/ENVY) from 192.168.10.3.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Content-Length: 284
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] cupsdSendHeader: code=200, 
type="application/ipp", auth_type=0
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] con->http=0x561443dbc990
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] cupsdWriteClient error=0, 
used=0, state=HTTP_STATE_POST_SEND, data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODING_LENGTH, 
data_remaining=284, response=0x561443df8940(IPP_STATE_DATA), pipe_pid=0, 
file=-1
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Writing IPP response, 
ipp_state=IPP_STATE_DATA, old wused=0, new wused=0
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] bytes=0, http_state=0, 
data_remaining=284
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Flushing write buffer.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] New state is HTTP_STATE_WAITING
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] [Client 77] Waiting for request.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:46 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", 
busy="Active clients"
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] POST /printers/ENVY HTTP/1.1
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active 
clients", busy="Not busy"
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] Read: status=200, state=6
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] No authentication data provided.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] 2.0 Get-Printer-Attributes 133
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] Get-Printer-Attributes 
http://athena:631/printers/ENVY
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] Returning IPP successful-ok 
for Get-Printer-Attributes (http://athena:631/printers/ENVY) from 
192.168.10.3.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] Content-Length: 1853
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] cupsdSendHeader: code=200, 
type="application/ipp", auth_type=0
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] con->http=0x561443dbc990
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] cupsdWriteClient error=0, 
used=0, state=HTTP_STATE_POST_SEND, data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODING_LENGTH, 
data_remaining=1853, response=0x561443de64a0(IPP_STATE_DATA), 
pipe_pid=0, file=-1
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] Writing IPP response, 
ipp_state=IPP_STATE_DATA, old wused=0, new wused=0
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] bytes=0, http_state=0, 
data_remaining=1853
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] Flushing write buffer.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] New state is HTTP_STATE_WAITING
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] Waiting for request.
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy", 
busy="Active clients"
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] HTTP_STATE_WAITING Closing 
for error 32 (Broken pipe)
D [10/Feb/2021:17:44:47 -0700] [Client 77] Closing connection.

-- 
Dan Egli
On my test server