BrowsePoll not working?

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Daniel Henninger wrote:
> Howdy!  It's possible I just misunderstand how BrowsePoll is supposed 
> to work but...  Taking a client running CUPS 1.3 .. I have placed a 
> BrowsePoll line for each of our 4 print servers:
> 
> BrowsePoll uni00ps.unity.ncsu.edu
> BrowsePoll uni01ps.unity.ncsu.edu
> BrowsePoll uni02ps.unity.ncsu.edu
> BrowsePoll uni03ps.unity.ncsu.edu
> 
> Each server has all queues mirrored.  I have also set ImplicitAnyClasses 
> to On and ImplicitClasses to On.  Cupsd regularly prints into the debug 
> log:
> 
> [cupsd-polld uni00ps.unity.ncsu.edu] Found 3 printers.
> (repeated for all four of them)
> 
> That is correct, there are 3 printers on each (at the moment while 
> we're testing)  But when we use lpstat or look at the admin console 
> for a list of printers or classes, everything is blank.  What 
> requirements are there for browsepoll to work correctly?  Am I 
> missing something that needs to be set a different way on our servers 
> themselves? 

Do you have "BrowseRelay" lines in the relevant cupsd.conf files?

Something like:

     BrowseRelay 127.0.0.1 @LOCAL

See also:

     http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html#BrowseRelay

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