On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:52:55 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. >> > >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? > >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. > Do you have the nss-mdns package installed and a suitable entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf (hosts: dns files mdns works for me, but there is some discussion in the wiki about it).
