[cups] Configuration of Client-Side Avahi browsing

[Helge Blischke]

Perhaps you need to read the cups-snmp.conf manpage and look into
the /etc/cups/snmp.conf file.

Helge

> Am 23.11.2015 um 14:07 schrieb Alexander Hofmann <alexander.hofmann at new-h.de>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently trying to find the portion of code adding hundreds of
> printers to my "Print Document"-Dialog by querying Avahi. I first
> accused GTK of doing this, but it seems that cups now has this feature
> it self...
> 
> While it might be helpful in some cases, I'm tired of searching my 3
> installed printers alongside of hundrets of other on the site and even
> off-site via VPN. I can disable "avahi-daemon" or disable it's DBus
> interface which will stop this, but I'd be more satisfied if I could
> configure this directly. It's also not related to "cups-browsed" - it's
> not running (I don't even have the service installed). It's possible
> that I'm completely on the wrong track here, maybe I'm better off asking
> package maintainers etc, but still, maybe you can help...
> 
> So, my questions are:
> a) does cups (version 1.7.2 as in Linux Min 17.2), without the
> browsed-daemon, have the feature of searching and including Avahi-based
> printers and adding them dynamically to the list? I checked the source
> of "dnssd" and "mdns" backends, they utilize Avahi, but removing them
> doesn't change anything
> b) Is there any possibility to ask cups who actually added the printer
> to the list? I.e., if some Mint-Specific daemon caused the problem -
> could I ask cups to tell me the process or script etc. that added the
> printer?
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alexander Hofmann
> 
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