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Once printer sharing is enabled, it could be additionally advertised in the home network via the Samba protocol, [[Samba#Printer_sharing|see]].

=== ~~Client (Linux)~~ ===

===See also===

~~If you want~~ to ~~use~~ a printer ~~shared on the network, and if you enabled {{nixos~~:~~option|services~~.~~avahi~~.~~publish~~.~~userServices}} in the server configuration, enabling printing and avahi on the client should be sufficient~~ for ~~the printer to be detected~~:

* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/13901 How to properly setup a shared (home) printer? #13901]

~~<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">~~

* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Printer_sharing Printer sharing (Arch Linux wiki)]

{

* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23993 Little Printing/CUPS Documentation for Configuration as a Print Server #23993]

~~...~~

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160829175522/https://nixos.org/wiki/Printers Old wiki page]

~~services.printing.enable~~ = ~~true;~~

~~services.avahi.enable~~ = ~~true;~~

[[Category:Configuration]][[Category:Hardware]]

~~# Important to resolve .local domains of printers, otherwise you get an error~~

~~# like~~ "~~Impossible to connect to XXX.local:~~ Name or service not known"

==Troubleshooting==

~~services.avahi.nssmdns~~ = ~~true;~~

}

=== Adding network printer "Name or service not known" ===

~~</syntaxhighlight>~~

If CUPS complains about "''Impossible to connect to XXX.local: Name or service not known''" even if {{nixos:option|services.avahi.nssmdns}} is enabled as shown above, the reason could be that mdns does not work properly with IPv6 in your network. In such a case, switching to mdns4-only setup can help:

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See [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/118628 this bug report] for details.

~~===See also===~~

=== Upgrade required ===

* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/13901 How to properly setup a shared (home) printer? #13901]

* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Printer_sharing Printer sharing (Arch Linux wiki)]

* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23993 Little Printing/CUPS Documentation for Configuration as a Print Server #23993]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160829175522/https://nixos.org/wiki/Printers Old wiki page]

~~[[Category:Configuration]][[Category:Hardware]]~~

~~==Troubleshooting==~~

===Upgrade ~~Required~~===

Described in: [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23993 Github issue 23993]<br />

'''Problem'''<br />

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 Once printer sharing is enabled, it could be additionally advertised in the home network via the Samba protocol, [[Samba#Printer_sharing|see]].
-=== Client (Linux) ===
+===See also===
-If you want to use a printer shared on the network, and if you enabled {{nixos:option|services.avahi.publish.userServices}} in the server configuration, enabling printing and avahi on the client should be sufficient for the printer to be detected:
+* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/13901 How to properly setup a shared (home) printer? #13901]
-<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Printer_sharing Printer sharing (Arch Linux wiki)]
-{
+* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23993 Little Printing/CUPS Documentation for Configuration as a Print Server #23993]
-  ...
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160829175522/https://nixos.org/wiki/Printers Old wiki page]
-  services.printing.enable = true;
-  services.avahi.enable = true;
+[[Category:Configuration]][[Category:Hardware]]
-  # Important to resolve .local domains of printers, otherwise you get an error
-  # like  "Impossible to connect to XXX.local: Name or service not known"
+==Troubleshooting==
-  services.avahi.nssmdns = true;
-}
+=== Adding network printer "Name or service not known" ===
-</syntaxhighlight>
 If CUPS complains about "''Impossible to connect to XXX.local: Name or service not known''" even if {{nixos:option|services.avahi.nssmdns}} is enabled as shown above, the reason could be that mdns does not work properly with IPv6 in your network. In such a case, switching to mdns4-only setup can help:
@@ Line 184: / Line 183: @@
 See [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/118628 this bug report] for details.
-===See also===
+=== Upgrade required ===
-* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/13901 How to properly setup a shared (home) printer? #13901]
-* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Printer_sharing Printer sharing (Arch Linux wiki)]
-* [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23993 Little Printing/CUPS Documentation for Configuration as a Print Server #23993]
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160829175522/https://nixos.org/wiki/Printers Old wiki page]
-[[Category:Configuration]][[Category:Hardware]]
-==Troubleshooting==
-===Upgrade Required===
 Described in: [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23993 Github issue 23993]<br />
 '''Problem'''<br />