[cups.general] browsing nightmare

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Sep 8 10:01:12 PDT 2008


Marcos Dione wrote:
>> Marcos Dione wrote:
>>> ...
>>> now, this is supposed to work without this, right? what am I missing/doing wrong?
>> Browse packets are UDP, and so don't get past subnet boundaries.  Use
>> BrowsePoll on the clients to see servers on other subnets.
> 
> but they're in the same network!:
 > ...

Hmm, check your firewall settings - the defaults usually do not
permit any traffic over port 631 (which is surprising given the number
of years CUPS has been included with Debian and other Linux distros...)

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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