[cups] Dual setup: USB Printer and Cups printers not working

[Abdel Ayala]

Hi Zdenek,

Ubuntu 18.04.1. - the printer in question is a Brother BL2170W. The
printer works locally (by disabling cups) and then with cups enabled I
can print only over the network.
Thanks
Abdel

2019-03-13 3:23 GMT-04:00, Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal at redhat.com>:
> Hi Abdel,
>
> would you mind telling us what cups version do you use? What is your OS
> distro and printer model? Depending on those info we can say more about
> if it is possible to share usb printer over network or not.
>
> On 3/12/19 11:51 PM, Abdel Ayala wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have 1 cups server exposing print servers. Every host discovers the
>> printers, that is working.
>>
>> The problem: I have a customer that has a local usb printer, he wants
>> to print both from the local printer and over the network.
>>
>> If I make the printer work I need to disable cups, so the applications
>> can print to the local printer, in this way he can print, however, he
>> then cannot print over the network, is that setup possible? if so how?
>> Thanks
>>
>> Abdel.
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> Zdenek Dohnal
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