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I have a network printer and my machine recently stopped being able to print, other machines can print fine. Besides having to use root to change its settings, when I try to change its settings I get the following error:

CUPS "client-error-not-possible".

Many forum threads suggest installing smbclient to solve the issue, but I already have it installed.

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Installing samba, smbclient and running

sudo sed -i '/^\[global]/aclient max protocol = SMB3' /etc/samba/smb.conf

did the trick. Not sure if the last part is necessary though.

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    On Linux Mint 19. Just installing "samba" and "smbclient" was enough for me: I ran "sudo apt install samba" and "sudo apt install smbclient". I then ran also the printer configuration with sudo, i.e. "sudo system-config-printer", but I don't know if that (running it with sudo) was really necessary. May 2, 2019 at 13:45
  • on Ubuntu 22.04 installing smblient is sufficient Dec 4, 2022 at 22:51
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My issue was having entered lpd://printer.printland.com instead of just printer.printland.com in the Host field of gnome-printer-config.

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On Ubuntu 19.04, installing the smbclient solves the problem. So, open a terminal and run the following command :

sudo apt-get install smbclient
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I was able to solve my issue by removing the printer and then readding it again using the system-config-printer wizard and searching for a new network printer.

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