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ORBI RBK53 (AC3000) "No AirPrint Printers Found" After Firmware V2.1.4.10 Installed
Have been running my ORBI RBK53 system for almost a year. AirPrint from multiple iOS devices (1x iOS 9.3.5 & 3x iOS 11.3.1) worked flawlessly until a few days ago. The only thing that changed was the ORBI firmware, which is now at V2.1.4.10. Wi-Fi printing from iMac & Windows is still working but my two AirPrint printers (one HP & one Brother) are reported as "No AirPrint Printers Found". I have performed the following troubleshooting: Verified printer settings are unchanged Performed network port scans Rebooted ORBI network & printers numerous times Factory reset of the OBRI units I have observed the following: There is NO discovery of AirPrint printers I can still print via AirPrint if a printer was still listed as a previous printer Rebooting printer may reenable AirPrint for a very short time The network scan shows no Bonjour/Zeroconf services It appears the latest ORBI firmware is suppressing AirPort discovery.
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ZoneMaster
May 04, 2018 Place Orbi Wi-Fi 5 (AC) and Orbi with Voice Mesh
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Airprint printer not reachable fromv EX6400 extender network
Hi there I have a wifi network with a D7000 modem/router and a EX6400 extender, with a HP Officejet 5740 printer connected via ethernet cable to the D7000 and a number of Apple devices (iPhones, iPad) connected via wifi. If an iPhone is connected to the router wifi I am able to print via Apple Airprint, but when it's connected to repeater wifi (SSID ..._EXT), the same printer appears as unavailable. I read on other posts that Apple Airprint services, like others (audio video streaming , IPTV), use IP multicast (or mDNS or Bonjour) packets, which seem to be not re-transmitted by the extender. Any ideas?
etoracca
Feb 18, 2018 Place Nighthawk WiFi Range Extenders
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My Media stops responding and AirPrint issue
I have a Mac Mini 2010 running Yosemite. I have enabled file sharing. When I try to run My Media from the buggy app (the option is not present in the browser version), the app hangs. It can find my Mac. When I try to simply change the file location of the music folder, or download folder, it hangs. I also bought this router so I could print directly from my iPhone to my Lexmark E360d laser printer. It prints to my Canon MX490 inkjet through AirPrint natively. It shows as printing, then times out, error connecting to printer. The printer is connected via USB, and prints properly from the Mac itself.
BenY
Aug 01, 2017 Place Nighthawk App
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AirPrint and ReadyNASOS6
Hey, I've been trying to get my ReadyNAS to operate as a 'print server' for my local network, including with AirPrint functionallity. I have a Brother wifi printer (so it's not connected via USB) and have sucessfully installed the required CUPS and foomatic filter packages, and have the printer shared with my network without issue. The next issue was AirPrint. I've read all the posts in this forun where people have sucessfully got it working with pre-iOS6 clients; but have had no success with the post-6 devices. I believe I have figured out why.... The issue is Avahi, and the advertising of the printer as an AirPrint printer. Previous to iOS6, the Avahi .service file did not make use of the <subtype> directive; but since iOS6, a specific <subtype> setting is required in order for iOS to 'see' the printer. Unforunately, it is the use of the <subtype> directive in the .service file which is causing Avahi to crash on the ReadyNAS - and thus prevent the NAS from advertising the AirPrint printers to the local network. The Avahi .service file for my Brother wifi printer was created with this script: https://raw.github.com/tjfontaine/airprint-generate/master/airprint-generate.py The script spits out a valid .service file which contains everything which SHOULD be required in order to advertise the printer via mDNS/Bonjour for the iOS devices to pick up. The problem is that Avahi crashes while it is parsing any .service file which contains a <subtype> option. This can easily be reproduced if you upload a .service file created using the above script (or any other example you find with google) and run Avahi from a terminal as root. The .service file for my Brother wifi printer is: <?xml version="1.0" ?><!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM 'avahi-service.dtd'> <service-group> <name replace-wildcards="yes">AirPrint Brother_DCP-1610W @ %h</name> <service> <type>_ipp._tcp</type> <subtype>_universal._sub._ipp._tcp</subtype> <port>631</port> <txt-record>txtvers=1</txt-record> <txt-record>qtotal=1</txt-record> <txt-record>Transparent=T</txt-record> <txt-record>URF=none</txt-record> <txt-record>rp=printers/Brother_DCP-1610W</txt-record> <txt-record>note=Brother DCP-1610W</txt-record> <txt-record>product=(GPL Ghostscript)</txt-record> <txt-record>printer-state=3</txt-record> <txt-record>printer-type=0x80b004</txt-record> <txt-record>pdl=application/octet-stream,application/pdf,application/postscript,image/gif,image/jpeg,image/png,image/tiff,image/urf,text/html,text/plain,application/vnd.adobe-reader-postscript,application/vnd.cups-command,application/vnd.cups-pdf</txt-record> </service> </service-group> (different printers will obviously have different output from the script... but the key point of note here is the inclusion of the <subtype> directive) If the <subtype> directive is commented out, Avahi on the ReadyNAS will parse and load the file without issue (but the printer is not picked up by iOS due to the missing directive): Found user 'avahi' (UID 84) and group 'avahi' (GID 84). Successfully dropped root privileges. avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up. Successfully called chroot(). Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Loading service file /services/AirPrint-Brother_DCP-1610W.service. Loading service file /services/frontview.service. Loading service file /services/nut.service. Joining mDNS multicast group on interface bond0.IPv4 with address 192.168.67.248. New relevant interface bond0.IPv4 for mDNS. Joining LLMNR multicast group on interface bond0.IPv4 with address 192.168.67.248. New relevant interface bond0.IPv4 for LLMNR. Network interface enumeration completed. Registering new mDNS address record for 192.168.67.248 on bond0.IPv4. Registering new LLMNR address record for 192.168.67.248 on bond0.IPv4. Server startup complete. Host name is NAS.local. Local service cookie is 2760298420. All host RR's have been announced/verified : SERVER RUNNING Service "NAS" (/services/nut.service) successfully established. Service "ReadyNAS Administration on NAS" (/services/frontview.service) successfully established. Service "AirPrint Brother_DCP-1610W @ NAS" (/services/AirPrint-Brother_DCP-1610W.service) successfully established. However, with the <subtype> option present, Avahi crashed out at startup: Found user 'avahi' (UID 84) and group 'avahi' (GID 84). Successfully dropped root privileges. avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up. Successfully called chroot(). Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Loading service file /services/AirPrint-Brother_DCP-1610W.service. Loading service file /services/frontview.service. Loading service file /services/nut.service. Joining mDNS multicast group on interface bond0.IPv4 with address 192.168.67.248. New relevant interface bond0.IPv4 for mDNS. Joining LLMNR multicast group on interface bond0.IPv4 with address 192.168.67.248. New relevant interface bond0.IPv4 for LLMNR. Network interface enumeration completed. Registering new mDNS address record for 192.168.67.248 on bond0.IPv4. Registering new LLMNR address record for 192.168.67.248 on bond0.IPv4. Server startup complete. Host name is NAS.local. Local service cookie is 1803852026. avahi-daemon: running [NAS.local]: entry.c:1080: avahi_server_add_service_subtype: Assertion `flags & AVAHI_PUBLISH_USE_MULTICAST || flags & AVAHI_PUBLISH_USE_WIDE_AREA' failed. I believe this is an issue related to the version of Avahi present on the ReadyNAS. Is there any chance of Netgear upgrading the version to one which doesn't contain this bug, or at the very least patch something which will cause Avahi to crash at start? I'd appreciate if anyone else can test their system to see if they get a similar problem with Avahi - just to make sure i'm not doing something completely brain-dead :) If we can get this crashing issue resolved, i'm pretty sure we can get AirPrint working again in ReadyNASOS6. Cheers.
tadgy
Nov 04, 2015 Place ReadyNAS Storage Apps - Current Apps
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