Unable to Share CUPS Printer in RHEL

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Issue

After running "lpadmin -p P1234 -v ipp://10.1.2.3/printers/P1234", the printer was permanently un-shared. Even removing /printers from the DeviceURI by Running "lpadmin -p P1234 -v ipp://10.1.2.3/P1234 -o printer-is-shared=true" doesn't share the printer.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RGEL) 5 & 6
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.3.7 and 1.4.2

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