On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:52 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> 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). -- Mantas Mikulėnas
