CUPS "client-error-not-possible"

Question

I have a network printer and my machine recently stopped being able to print, other machines can print fine. Besides having to use root to change its settings, when I try to change its settings I get the following error:

CUPS "client-error-not-possible".

Many forum threads suggest installing smbclient to solve the issue, but I already have it installed.

Solution 1

I was able to solve my issue by removing the printer and then readding it again using the system-config-printer wizard and searching for a new network printer.

Solution 2

Installing samba, smbclient and running

sudo sed -i '/^\[global]/aclient max protocol = SMB3' /etc/samba/smb.conf

did the trick. Not sure if the last part is necessary though.

Solution 3

My issue was having entered lpd://printer.printland.com instead of just printer.printland.com in the Host field of gnome-printer-config.

Solution 4

On Ubuntu 19.04, installing the smbclient solves the problem. So, open a terminal and run the following command :

sudo apt-get install smbclient

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Comments

[lhlmgr]

thx, installing smbclient worked for me!

[AFGTO]

After trying everything... I found this that worked of me : askubuntu.com/questions/492200/…

[Mikko Östlund]

On Linux Mint 19. Just installing "samba" and "smbclient" was enough for me: I ran "sudo apt install samba" and "sudo apt install smbclient". I then ran also the printer configuration with sudo, i.e. "sudo system-config-printer", but I don't know if that (running it with sudo) was really necessary.