On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto <denisfalqueto@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:23 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?
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....
Any advice gratefully received.
An easy advice is not update CUPS on your Arch box until you can update your server. You can use IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf.
Yes that is true but it is nice to be up to the cutting edge - so learning how to work with the new version would be useful - and of course I could simply revert cups to the previous version.... -- mike c