On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:58 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:50 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> wrote:
OK I have avahi-daemon running on both client and server - and have just opened up port 5353 on both machines (mdns)
avahi-browse --all now sees the printer and opening a browser on localhost:631 and asking to find new printers now sees the cups shared printer and I can now complete a set of menu options and it has set it up nicely. Now the printer is seen on print options - so this is a great success.
I think the main key item was opening port 5353 on the firewall....
Thank you for your help.
Actually I am not quite there - the printer appears set up but when I tried printing to it nothing came through on the printer!
A little more investigation needed now.... --
It is strange - I rebooted the client - now the printer is not visible in localost:631 - but if I re-run avahi-browse --all it is there again - and after that I can see the printer in the cups browser management interface. Do you have to set up the printer from scratch each time the machine is booted? Surely it is possible to make the defined printer stick when using dns-sd? However I still have not succeeded in sending a print to the printer once defined. -- mike c