[cups.general] Status update with BrowsePoll and broadcast

[Michael Sweet]

On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Achim Ziegler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want so setup an environment with 2 CUPS servers (with identical queue configuration) and about 150 clients getting their configuration from the 2 servers.
> 
> The setup is complete, printing works fine, but the cupsd on the clients does not recognize status updates of the printqueues on the server. If I disable oder reject a printqueue the client doesn't show the correct information with 'lpstat -t'. Wireshark and the log-file are showing the right status but the daemon doesn't update it.
> 
> If the client does BrowsePoll, queue status and printer status are both wrong. Getting broadcasts, queue status is sometimes correct, but printer status is always wrong and not changing.
> 
> Any ideas what's wrong or how to setup an highly available configuration with correct status information on the clients?

CUPS browsing does not propagate the remote queue state (on purpose).

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair