On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:52 PM, mike cloaked
In fact I already had "BrowseLocalProtocols dnssd" in cupsd.conf in my laptop (client) - and on checking the server machine in fact avahi-daemon was already running - though I may need to change a config somewhere to allow it to broadcast dns-sd?
Can your laptop see the server machine itself? Use `avahi-discover`, `avahi-browse --all`, or `mdns-scan`. (With nss-mdns installed, the server can also be accessed via `<hostname>.local`)
I now have avahi-daemon running in the client laptop also but I don't see any printers visible from the server in the local network - one question I don't know is what port the dns-sd traffic needs - I need to ensure that any required port is not blocked in the firewalls.
mDNS uses port 5353/udp and also relies on IP multicast (which is core part of IPv6, but sometimes breaks in IPv4). -- Mantas Mikulėnas