[cups.general] Strangeness adding IPP printers

[Michael Sweet]

On Mar 1, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Bryan Maupin wrote:
> I'm using RHEL 5.6, cups-1.3.7-26.el5, and I'm seeing two strange things:
> 1. When adding an IPP printer in the format ipp://hostname/printers/name using lpadmin I cannot get the printer to be automatically shared.

You can't re-share printers.

> 2. When adding such printers with lpadmin, -o printer-is-shared=true seems to have no effect.

See above.

> It doesn't seem to matter whether I use a hostname or an IP address, or whether or not I specify a port.  Other schemes don't seem to be affected (socket://, http://).  The printer itself has no effect; as you can see in the below examples I didn't even use real printers.
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -E -v ipp://example.com -P dell-dp5330.ppd && sudo grep Shared /etc/cups/printers.conf && sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test
> Shared Yes
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -E -v ipp://example.com/printers -P dell-dp5330.ppd && sudo grep Shared /etc/cups/printers.conf && sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test
> Shared Yes
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -E -v ipp://example.com/printers/test -P dell-dp5330.ppd && sudo grep Shared /etc/cups/printers.conf && sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test
> Shared No
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -E -v ipp://example.com/printers/test -P dell-dp5330.ppd -o printer-is-shared=true && sudo grep Shared /etc/cups/printers.conf && sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test
> Shared No
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -E -v ipp://example.com/printers/foo -P dell-dp5330.ppd && sudo grep Shared /etc/cups/printers.conf && sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test
> Shared No
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -E -v ipp://example.com/printers/foo -P dell-dp5330.ppd -o printer-is-shared=true && sudo grep Shared /etc/cups/printers.conf && sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test
> Shared No
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -E -v ipp://example.com/foo -P dell-dp5330.ppd && sudo grep Shared /etc/cups/printers.conf && sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test
> Shared Yes
> 
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p test -E -v ipp://example.com/foo/foo -P dell-dp5330.ppd && sudo grep Shared /etc/cups/printers.conf && sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x test
> Shared Yes
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair