[cups] Print Server - not announcing printers

[Michael Sweet]

CUPS hasn't supported the old broadcast discovery mechanism for a long time now; you'll need to either adopt Bonjour discovery (which will work in your setup automatically) or use the cups-browsed program included with the cups-filters package.


> On Mar 2, 2018, at 5:24 AM, Dr. Peer-Joachim Koch <pkoch at bgc-jena.mpg.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to replace our old print server. Problem - the print server
> is also working as a firewall for our wlan.
> 
> The firewall is open on port (udp and tcp) 53  631 5353.
> 
> Cups should announce the printers on both sides, on the internal interface and also
> on the external interface.
> 
> The old server (cups 1.3.X) had the following settings:
> 
> Browsing On
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> BrowseAddress X.X.19.255
> BrowseAddress 10.0.250.255
> BrowseAddress 10.0.1.255
> BrowseLocalProtocols cups dnssd
> BrowseProtocols cups dnssd
> 
> 
> This is not working anymore ...
> 
> How do I have to change the config for cups 2.3 ?
> 
> -- 
> Bye,
>    Peer
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer