[avahi] Avahi and CUPS?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 25.07.06 09:41, Norman Ramsey (nr at eecs.harvard.edu) wrote:

> 
>  > 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.

Could you point me to this documentation? 

Lennart

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