'Discovery' of lpd printers

[Michael Sweet]

Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> After upgrading to 1.2.7 on my desktop, I've noticed that in the 
> Administration section of the web admin system, I can see all lpd 
> printers ( I think that's what they are ... they're all Ricohs, and 
> they're all visible ). That's great.
> 
> But on our server, which is also running 1.2.7, and has the cupsd.conf 
> copied from my desktop, I *can't* see these printers.
> 
> There's nothing in the log about it at all. Have I forgotten something?

The snmp backend looks for printers using SNMP broadcasts.  It is
possible your server is configured to not allow SNMP broadcasts, or
has different networking configuration that can't see broadcasts from
the printers.

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