On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:23 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> wrote:
Now that cups 1.6 is in core - I have been struggling to get my laptop to "see" a shared printer attached by usb to another machine on the same network - previously if port 631 was open on all machines in the network then cups seemed to make the printer visible on all local machines.
I have been reading that avahi-daemon needs to be running for printer discovery to work with the new version of cups but I have not been able to get my laptop to see the cups shared printer on a desktop elsewhere in the same network - does anyone have a link to the key steps in the config to get this working?
Try "BrowseLocalProtocols dnssd" in cupsd.conf.
I did read that under the new system avahi needs to be running on both server and client - but in my case the "server" machine is linux but not arch and still running cups version <1.6 and is not currently running avahi....
So install Avahi? If I remember correctly, older CUPS versions support both CUPS and DNS-SD browsing.
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? 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. -- mike c