Client shows queues always empty

[John A. Murdie]

I've a satisfactory CUPS 1.2.3 installation on a Solaris system from which I can print to a wide range of printers. When I print and then do an lpq(1) from the Solaris system, I see:

$ lpq -Ppp23
pp23 is ready and printing
Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
active  john    95      9.pdf                           1408000 bytes
$

but when I lpq(1) from the client Linux system with CUPS 1.2.2, which has IP address A.B.41.119 and netmask 255.255.254.0 - i.e. it's on the A.B.40/41 subnet here, (and this subnet's broadcast address is thus A.B.41.255, so this is the BrowseAddress) - and the cupsd.conf on the server Solaris system contains:

    # Log general information in error_log - change "info" to "debug"
    # for troubleshooting...
    LogLevel info

    # Administrator user group...
    SystemGroup sys root

    # Listen
    Listen 631

    # Serve clients
    BrowseAddress A.B.41.255
    BrowseRelay A.B.176.9 A.B.41.255

    # Show shared printers on the local network.
    Browsing On
    BrowseOrder allow,deny
    BrowseAllow @LOCAL

    ...

while the clients can see the server-provided printers, all I see ever on the client of the printer queues is:

$ lpq -Ppp23
pp23 is ready and printing
no entries
$

The client side cupsd.conf file is similarly innocuous - out-of-the-box Slackware Linux, and in any case I can't think of a directive that would prevent server contents being seen.

Perhaps this is a result of a stupidly simple omission on my part from some cupsd.conf - either on the client or the server? If so, I'm too much of a newbie to see what it is.

John A. Murdie