[cups] Fedora does not discover Printers

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I worked around having to use * as a ServerAlias by adding the 
ServerName to a ServerAlias entry.

Now I just have to figure out why some client applications print with a 
huge font.



On 06/04/2016 07:09 PM, 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.
>
>
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