[avahi] CUPS browsing for printers via Zerconf/Avahi/Bonjour

Ted Percival ted at midg3t.net
Wed Feb 25 10:35:16 PST 2009


Have you set the browse-domains option in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
to include your unicast domain?


Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I'm on openSUSE 11.1, and CUPS appears to be linked to Avahi -
>
> awilliam at linux-m3mt:~> ldd /usr/sbin/cupsd
> ...
> libavahi-client.so.3 => /usr/lib/libavahi-client.so.3 (0xb78ae000)
> libavahi-common.so.3 => /usr/lib/libavahi-common.so.3 (0xb789f000)
>
> And I have "BrowseProtocols dnssd" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>
> avahi-discover lists all the printers on my network (we've published
> them all in standard [unicast] DNS).
>
> Apple's Bonjour client for Windows works.  Users can install and use
> printer queues.
>
> But applications on openSUSE list none of the network printers. :(
>
> Should this work?
>   


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