Printer added to cups, but can't see it on the printing dialog

Question

I have a Debian server and a Debian laptop, and I'm trying to use a cups server to print pages from all my home computers.

So I added the printer to the server's cups successfully with the correct drivers, and after that I added the printer to my laptop's cups. However, when I ask to print, I don't see my printer in the print dialog in the system.

The screen shot is from the "Manage Printers" page of cups, where you see a shared printer and an added printer from the shared printer. While yet I can't see those printers in the print dialog.

Why is this happening?

Thank you for any efforts.

Solution

I got the problem fixed. The problem was that I had also my work network defined in ~/.cups/client.conf, and this made the lpstat -s freeze, and that made me realize that the system wasn't able to read the printers because of this. Thanks to @bnjmnrsr for the help :)

Comments

[The Quantum Physicist]

@bnjmnrsr Thank you for responding. Sorry I thought it was clear. Here's the info: The printer is connected to the server. I can print a test page on the server. All machines are on the same local network. Yes they can ping each other and I have a samba server running for files since long time; I've been trying to add a printing service as well. No I didn't connect the printer to my laptop, I'm doing everything remotely. The printer is always only connected to the server.

[jmgarza94]

It could be many things at this point. A few things that I would check: is your laptop user in the lpadmin group? Do you have an "Allow" entry for your network in your servers /etc/cups/cupsd.conf? Do you have the option "Share printers connected to this system" checked in your servers Admin page? What is the output of lpstat -s on both server and laptop?

[The Quantum Physicist]

@bnjmnrsr Thank you very much, I got the problem fixed. The problem was that I had also my work network defined in ~/.cups/client.conf, and this made the lpstat -s freeze, and that made me realize that the system wasn't able to read the printers because of this. Thanks a lot :)

[Kinnectus]

Good fix. Does CUPS let you have multiple networks? Say, like your situation, I have a Debian CUPS server at work, I then come home to my own similar setup, different IP ranges... is CUPS likely to always do what the OP had notice? Did you comment your work network out to fix it?

[The Quantum Physicist]

@BigChris In fact I don't know... for now I disabled the work network in ~/.cups/client.conf, and it works... maybe I'll have to always switch client.conf files.