CUPS Companion v 1.2.11 - Clients not browsing

Robert rob.roche at acs-inc.com
Wed Feb 20 02:00:14 PST 2008


> Robert wrote:
> >> Robert wrote:
> >>> I've installed the CUPS companion CD v1.2.11 (Printer and drivers and tools) on AIX 5.3 TL06
> >>>
> >>> I'm using CUPS in an AIX VIO environment.
> >>>
> >>> I was able to configure a printer on the CUPS server and print to it. When I configured the client it doesn't browse the server and pick up the printer.
> >>  > ...
> >>
> >> Are the client and server on the same subnet?
> >>
> >> --
> >> ______________________________________________________________________
> >> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > Yup. Both on the same subnet. They are talking across a virtual lan. I can telnet to the CUPS server port from the client and I can look at the printers on the server from the client by using lpstat -h <server> -t. But lpinfo -v or lpstat -t dont show anything on the client.
>
> If the virtual LAN doesn't support broadcast or isn't routing UDP
> packets on port 631, then the client will never see them.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com




Hi Michael,

I got confirmation from IBM that the VLAN has no problems supporting broadcast or routing UDP.

Is there any extra debugging I can use to test?




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