On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto <denisfalqueto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:23 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> 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? >> >> 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.... >> >> Any advice gratefully received. > > An easy advice is not update CUPS on your Arch box until you can > update your server. You can use IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf. Yes that is true but it is nice to be up to the cutting edge - so learning how to work with the new version would be useful - and of course I could simply revert cups to the previous version.... -- mike c
