[cups.general] BrowsePoll feature regression?

[henri]

> I ve'got two cups boxes on my LAN. Box A is the primary print  
> server, all client PC's have a client.conf with "ServerName A". Box  
> B has a parallel connection to a laser writer.
>
> Earlier this year the boxes where running Debian Etch (Cups 1.2.7);  
> Server A had in cupsd.conf a "BroswePoll B" - so all clients could  
> use the Printer on Box B. The nice thing was:
> 1.) it was not necessary on Server A to manually add the printer
> 2.) When Box B was offline the clients did not see the corresponding  
> laser writer, hence the users did not wonder why it would not work.
>
> The I upgraded from Etch to Lenny and with that Cusp to version  
> 1.3.8. The clients still can see the printer but are unable to print  
> to it bc/ cups on Server A tells me "Printer State: idle, accepting  
> jobs, not published."; Printing fails with "client-error-not- 
> authorized".
>
> So, is this behavior a deliberate feature regression or a Bug?
>
> Cheers,
> Sigmund


I am unable to answer this question from the CUPS point of view.  
However, as a solution to this situation. You could use PrinterSetup  
to manage the queues and then dynamically update the queues on the  
server or the client based upon whether or not the printer is online.

Details regarding PrinterSetup are available from the following URL :
http://www.lucidsysems.org/printingworks/printersetup

Also, just yesterday I uploaded a screencast which begins to touch on  
the dynamic configuration features though the use of scripts. If you  
want to go down this path then have a look at this latest screencast.  
Essentially, it explains that there are pre and post hook scripts  
which are able to dynamically configure the printers on the system  
based on various circumstances.

I hope this helps.