[arch-general] Cups 1.6 printer discovery

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:52 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Can your laptop see the server machine itself?
>
> Use `avahi-discover`, `avahi-browse --all`, or `mdns-scan`. (With
> nss-mdns installed, the server can also be accessed via
> `<hostname>.local`)
>
>> 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.
>
> mDNS uses port 5353/udp and also relies on IP multicast (which is core
> part of IPv6, but sometimes breaks in IPv4).
>

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.


-- 
mike c