[cups] Fedora does not discover Printers

[Brett I. Holcomb]

On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 00:09 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 16:08:33 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2016-06-04 at 20:02 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Install avahi-daemon on server and clients. Install cups-browsed
> > > on the
> > > 
> > > 
> > > clients. Read documention for cups-browsed.
> Also read cups-browsed.conf because it is uncertain whether you need
> BrowseAllow if the server is doing only Bonjour broadcasting.
> 
> > 
> > Did that earlier today.  In client I set BrowseAllow as all  and
> > had to
> > add a Browsepoll for the server.  The server file was left as is
> > but it
> > still did not work.  That let the client see the printers but the
> > print
> > button was grayed out.  I finally found a bug report (https://bugs.
> > debi
> > an.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530027) in which changing
> > ServerAlias
> > to * worked for some and it did for me.  Once I added that to the
> > server /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and restarted cups the print button was
> > no
> > longer grayed out.  Based on the cups docs this is probably not a
> > good
> > thing since it allows all but it works.
> > The server actual host name is x.sub.mydomain.net and it has a
> > CNAME of
> > prtsrv1.sub.mydomain.net which is what I put in BrowsePoll.   The
> > server /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file has ServerName x.sub.mydomain.net
> > and
> > I tried ServerAlias of prtsrv1.sub.mydomain.net and while that
> > allows
> > WebUI access the cups log file complained about the client using an
> > invalid host and listing x.sub.mydomain.net:631 as the invalid
> > host.
> >  Changing to ServerAlias * fixed that.
> > Now to find out why  a simple text file print gives me huge font.
> > Thanks for the help.
> I snipped too much of your first mail and lost sight of
> 
>   >...since my Fedora client is on a different subnet than the
> server.
> 
> I have no experience of dealing with avahi broadcasting between
> subnets,
> The daemon has a "reflector" option which might be what you need and
> this might be useful:
> 
>   https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7015851
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 
Thanks. I'll look into that.  Right now it works as long as ServerAlias
is * so I'll have to dig into that and find out what's going on.
The client also can not set properties on the printer (paper size,
etc.) so I assume that's a permissions issue and will dig into that.
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