poll and relay

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Jun 22 06:24:35 PDT 2004


dl279 at cam.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have two subnets A and B with one cups server each. One is a
> solaris box the other one is a RedHat box respectively. I would like
> all the printers in subnet A to be visible/available for computers in
> subnet B.
> 
> I have included these in the cupsd.conf file on server B:
> 
> BrowsePoll serverA:631
 > BrowseRelay 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.255 (subnet B)

Those look correct (presumably the subnet B comment is not in your
cupsd.conf file, right? :)

> thinking that all computers in subnet B would be able to see the
> printers through server B but that doen't happen except for server B
> which can see all printers of subnet A.

Hmm, do you have browsing enabled on both the server and clients?
Are there any BrowseAllow/Deny lines on either?  Are you getting
any messages concerning the browsing in /var/log/cups/error_log?

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