[avahi] Avahi and CUPS?

[Norman Ramsey]

 > On Tue, 25.07.06 09:13, Norman Ramsey (nr at eecs.harvard.edu) wrote:
 > 
 > > Last week I was traveling, and avahi-browse worked perfectly
 > > in finding printers.  Unfortunately, I could not persuade CUPS
 > > of the existence of these printers.  Perhaps  I should be asking
 > > on a CUPS list, but is there some trick to it?  (I thought other
 > > Avahi users might know.)
 > > 
 > > The parts of my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf that I believe to be relevant are:
 > > 
 > > # Show shared printers on the local network.
 > > Browsing On
 > > BrowseOrder allow,deny
 > > BrowseAllow from @LOCAL
 > > BrowseProtocols dnssd cups
 > > BrowseRemoteProtocols dnssd cups
 > > BrowseLocalProtocols dnssd cups
 > 
 > AFAIK CUPS upstream doesn't support browsing for printers with either
 > Bonjour or Avahi.

Hmm.  The documentation clearly lists 'dnssd' as an option, but maybe
Avahi is considered 'mdnsd'?  In any case, thanks for the quick answer.


Norman