[arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:23 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at 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