Starting with CUPS 1.6 things have changed considerably. Clients are no longer discovering broadcasted printers anymore. Distributions (e.g. Debian) has backported the original protocol into cups-daemon package but this doesn't seem to work either on my laptop. I would like to look and try to understand what the hack is going on here.
The outcome should be my understanding of the change and how to configure CUPs to behave reasonably again.
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almost 10 years ago by jsmeix | Reply
For testing use either SLE12 (contains CUPS 1.7.5 plus the separated package cups-filters that contains the cups-browsed that provides some basic traditional CUPS Browsing functionality) or for openSUSE use CUPS 1.7.5 from OBS "home:jsmeix" plus cups-filters from OBS "Printing".
For basic information see the SLE12 release notes: https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x8664/SUSE-SLES/12/ see also http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/showbug.cgi?id=900993
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almost 10 years ago by mhocko | Reply
Yes, cups-browsed (I accidentally named it cups-daemon previously) did the trick in the end. I had it installed but still wasn't lucky to see any remote printers. The trick was that /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf contained BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAllow all
by default coming from Debian package. There was even a text describing "Note that for getting available the remote printers from all hosts/networks you have to remove all "BrowseAllow" lines." but I obviously didn't get it until I started cups-browsed directly with --debug option and saw: cups-browsed: Reading config: BrowseAllow all cups-browsed: BrowseAllow value "all" not understood [...] cups-browsed: browse packet from 10.100.2.15 disallowed cups-browsed: browse packet from 10.100.2.11 disallowed
After commenting that line out, printers started showing up. I have also checked that avahi-daemon is really not required for the traditional CUPS printers. I guess I will eventually have to enable the beast but let's wait until printers really start using DNS-SD.
Anyway, thanks for your links!
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