remove obselete printer from trashed server

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Richard wrote:
> On my network,a PC has been trashed. But it governed a printer, which 
> continues to be listed on all the other PCs even though I've edited it 
> out of the /etc/cups/printer.conf file on them all. 

So this is an all-Unix/Linux network?

> On some lpstat -a 
> will list the defunct printer, on others it doesn't.

What does lpstat -v say on those boxen where it is still listed? (-v
tells the backend URI used for a printer, and if you see s.th. like

    ipp://name-or-ip/printers/oldname

you know there is still a box "name-or-ip" on your network that has
the logical printer installed, and broadcasts it to the rest).

Also, what value did the PCs in question use -- maybe a very long timeout
for browsed printers (see the setting "BrowseTimeout" in cupsd.conf)?




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