[cups] Problems with using /etc/cups/client.conf on 1.5 client to 1.7 server

[Brian Potkin]

On Tue 29 Sep 2015 at 12:04:50 +0100, Rich Lott wrote:

> I have several Ubuntu machines on a network. One has a printer and all the
> others have an |/etc/cups/client.conf| file that points them to this box.
> 
> All was well until I upgraded the one that acts as a print server, which
> upgraded CUPS from 1.5 to 1.7.
> 
> Now my client machines don't see any of the printers. (The upgraded print
> machine has the printer shared, can print, is accessible over port 631 etc.
> - all seems well there.)
> 
> How can I get the client CUPS 1.5 machines to pass on stuff to the upgraded
> server as was working before?

Please see the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/cups and the documentation
for cups-browsed.

Regards,

Brian.