On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> "Bonjour Support; Bonjour printer sharing and discovery is now also >> supported using Avahi." >> >> Also supported? > > "Also supported" means "you can now use Avahi instead of Bonjour", as > DNS-SD support in previous versions was limited to Mac OS X. > > The removal of CUPS Browsing is mentioned in > <http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/06/cups-1-6-changes-ahead/>. It makes > sense, since DNS-SD is more efficient, and Apple already use it for a > whole ton of other programs. > >> I can't see it affecting network printers using IPP in any case anyway. > > That's right, it only affects printer discovery. I finally got my printer working - by setting the correct settings into nsswitch.conf and running avahi-daemon I can see the printer - though it turns out that the printer definition in the client machine needs a proprietary ppd file (and proprietary raster file in the cups filter directory) and all then works well - strangely although the splix package works fine on Fedora - on arch the splix package fails to support my printer so I guess the two packages are different. Also I think that the old cups sharing meant that all the printing was handled in the server machine - but now the printer also needs to be defined in the client machine with its own drivers - which is rather different from the pre-1.6 behaviour - at least when the client is on cups v1.6 and the server is cups 1.5 However at least I have shown that printer sharing is possible and does work in cups 1.6 so I have an operational print facility again in my arch laptop. -- mike c
