making BrowsePoll work

[Rex Dieter]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> I've got a CentOS5 machine acting as a cups_server.  What'd I'd like to
>> be able to do is configure all of our client machines in their
>> cupsd.conf's:
> 
> First a question: why is that?
> 
> Usually, it is only in rather rare conditions that polling the server from
> each client is better than active browse broadcasting by the server
> itself.
....
> If it is because of different subnets of clients, you should consider
> letting only a few of the clients poll in each subnet, and then "browse
> relay" the polled printers to the other clients in the same subnet.

Bingo, thanks.

>> BrowsePoll cups_server
>> 
>> I can't find any incarnation of 'BrowseAllow' that makes this work.
> 
> (BrowseAllow is a setting for clients; it tells their cupsd which servers'
> browse broadcast packages to accept to build the list of locally available
> printers from...)
> 
> If you poll the server from a client, you need to make sure that the
> server actually does allow that specific client (or a group of that
> contains that client), and that it does indeed share the printer.
> 
> Check if '<Location />' and '<Location /printers> or not restricted for
> the polling client.

I'll double-check.

> You failed to state the exact version of your CUPS....

# rpm -q cups
cups-1.2.4-11.5.3.el5