[cups.general] precisions about browsing

[Michael Sweet]

Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Michael R Sweet a écrit :
>> Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>>> ...
>>> It does however need to be pollable by users machines. Quite 
>>> curiously, in order to make it works for MacOsX clients, they have to 
>>> specify browsing protocols, and the server needs to have a 
>>> corresponding 'BrowseAllow' directive. Those two directives are not 
>>> needed at all for Linux clients, which is a first issue.
>>
>> The default browsing configuration on Mac OS X is different than most
>> Linux distros.
> Indeed, I finally found a note here explaining the change in default 
> values:
> http://lapserv.maths.cam.ac.uk/docs/osxprint105.html
> 
> It would be worth a notice in cupsd.conf man page, wrongly announcing 
> 'CUPS dnssd' as default value, for us poor admins trying to manage 
> heterogeneous networks:
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/ref-cupsd-conf.html

Keep in mind that ref-cupsd-conf.html on cups.org reflects the
documentation as generated by configure on a Mac.  You should always
look at your local documentation ("man cupsd.conf" and
http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html) to see your local
defaults.

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