browsing and printer properties

[Michael R Sweet]

Peter wrote:
> When CUPS listens to browsing broadcasts, and sets up a remote
> printer, are the printer properties (like paper size, etc.) also
> transferred and configured? I assume that's the same question as:
> Does CUPS know which PPD to use for the printer?

CUPS adds ".ppd" to the printer URI to get the PPD URL.

> The background for my question: I noticed that sometimes
> gnome-cups-manager is showing properties for remote printers which
> were configured automatically with the browsing feature, and
> sometimes it isn't. How can that be?

It could be improper (security) configuration of /printers on the
server, or it could be a bug in GNOME.

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