Re: Unable to locate printer (on the network) - Brother HL-3170CDW

[Christian Gelinek]

Hello again!

On 7/10/22 18:41, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:
> October 6, 2022 2:51 AM, "Christian Gelinek" <christian.gelinek@mailbox.org> 
> wrote:
>
> > I got the CUPS web GUI working, which detects the printer in the Add Printer 
> > dialog, with a
> > Connection setting of
> > dnssd://Brother%20HL-3170CDW%20series._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-001ba9fa9f52
> >
> > When trying to print a test page, the State column on the printer's page's Jobs 
> > section becomes
> > "Unable to locate printer "BRN001BA9FA9F52.local"."
>
> I wish I could help.  I've never tried printing in GNU/Linux...

This was a long time ago, but a recent message on this list under the 
subject 'Unable to find wireless printer/scanner (Canon Pixma MG2950) on 
Guix' [0] suggested a fix which also worked in my case: All I needed to 
add to my 'operating-system' declaration was the '(name-service-switch 
%mdns-host-lookup-nss)' line, and I can print now.

Thanks to Guillaume for the suggestion.

[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2023-03/msg00094.html