On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:23 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? 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
