Re: Why doesn't Fedora 20 find my print server?

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Tim wrote:

> For many years, now, I've run a CUPS server on my LAN, that any distro
> of Linux I've switched on has managed to find the printers it publishes,
> without me having to do any client configuration on the PC, other than
> making sure the firewall isn't in the way.
> 
> The CUPS server advertises itself, the clients find it, automatically,
> and when I want to print something, there's a list of available printers
> that I can print to.  This is how it's supposed to work.
> 
> Fedora 20, however, finds nothing.  I don't want to have to go around
> configuring all the clients, and all the user accounts on each of the
> clients.  That's a really dumb way of doing things, something that CUPS
> and Linux used to manage to avoid.
> 
> Nor do I want to play silly buggers with Avahi.  None of the printers
> are UPnP/zeroconf thingummies, nor the print server.
> 
> What is wrong with the Fedora 20 CUPS client?

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CUPS1.6

Sounds like you may want to install/configure cups-browsed

-- Rex

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