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. -- Mantas Mikulėnas