[cups.general] Looking for a printer in CUPS

[Timothy Murphy]

Helge Blischke wrote:

> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>> I have a USB printer (HP OfficeJet) connected to my desktop,
>> running CentOS-5.5, with cups-1.3.7-18.el5_5.7.x86_64 .
>> This works fine on the desktop.
>> 
>> Now I am trying to access the printer from my laptop,
>> running Fedora-13 with 1:cups-1.4.2-28.fc12.i686 .
>> 
>> I thought CUPS was meant to be able to find
>> a printer on the local LAN?
>> Have I misunderstood this point,
>> or am I mis-applying CUPS in some way?

> The respectie printer must be published on the server to be accessible on
> other hosts.

Thanks.
The printer was actually published on the server,
but after restarting the CUPS service on desktop and laptop,
I can now see (and access) the printer on my laptop.
I'm not sure what was wrong before.

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