While adding a printer: 'client-error-not-possible'

Christopher Barrington-Leigh cpblpublic+cups at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 12:00:11 PDT 2011


I'm a dumb user.
I'm on the latest Ubuntu (Linux cpbl-thinkpad 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

I tried to add a printer (System->Admin->Printing->Add->Find NetworkPrinter

That searched. Up came a Xerox WC 5638 apparently hosted on a colleague's Macintosh. I click on that and get told it's a "Remote CUPS printer via DNS-SD".

I click Forward, am prompted for name, description, location. I fill those out and click Apply.

up pops:

CUPS server error: There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-not-possible'

This is repeatable.
Desperately,
c




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