I have tried various distros to date, from Manjaro or Kde Neon to Zorin. Always installed in a VirtualBox. I set the virtual network to bridge. Settings - Add printer… and with all distros, the printer was found immediately. Except with OpenSUSE. I was unable to set it up manually. Frustrating!!!
Have you installed cups-filters2-driverless?
zypper se -si cups
Have you disabled the firewall temporarily?
systemctl stop firewalld.service
Now use executed as User:
driverless
A likely firewall issue…
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_a_Printer
It worked, thank you very much.
Nevertheless, I don’t understand why this can’t be done easily in the settings - printer.
If I’m installing the recommended version, the needs of a ‘desktop user’ should be covered.
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What worked? Firewall and/or missing package?
Here, driverless printing works without any such package. The cups-filters package provides the necessary CUPS driverless backend.
The procedure described by “sauerland” for installing a printer
Well it seems you were missing the driverless filter. Not sure why though. I don’t recall have to add it manually when installing Leap 16 a few months back. In any case both the mentioned packages provide the driverless backend support. The cups-filters2-driverless is a cut down version (just the driverless support).
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Strange. I downloaded the version today and installed it with the default settings (offline version).
I think that the necessary cups modules must be installed in the default installation. The firewall should also be configured so that local network printers can be found.
I agree that allowing mDNS in the firewall would make driverless printer / scanner discovery more convenient. However, openSUSE defaults to the public firewall zone for safety, and that zone intentionally blocks mDNS traffic. Maybe the installer could ask if behind a firewall already, and add the primary network interface to the home zone instead. It’s the old security vs convenience argument.
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Yes, but the cups-filters2-driverless is the newer one?
Quellpaket : cups-filters2-2.0.1-160000.2.2.src
Upstream-URL : https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters
versus
Quellpaket : cups-filters-1.28.17-lp160.162.1.src
Upstream-URL : http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/cups-filters
Yes, but there is also cups-filters2 available if needed.
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