Why doesn't Fedora 20 find my print server?

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/21/14 15:56, Tim wrote:
> For many years, now, I've run a CUPS server on my LAN, that any distro
> of Linux I've switched on has managed to find the printers it publishes,
> without me having to do any client configuration on the PC, other than
> making sure the firewall isn't in the way.
>
> The CUPS server advertises itself, the clients find it, automatically,
> and when I want to print something, there's a list of available printers
> that I can print to.  This is how it's supposed to work.
>
> Fedora 20, however, finds nothing.  I don't want to have to go around
> configuring all the clients, and all the user accounts on each of the
> clients.  That's a really dumb way of doing things, something that CUPS
> and Linux used to manage to avoid.
>
> Nor do I want to play silly buggers with Avahi.  None of the printers
> are UPnP/zeroconf thingummies, nor the print server.
>
> What is wrong with the Fedora 20 CUPS client?
>

I'm not 100% clear on what you're saying. 

I think you are saying you have a CUPS print server set up on your LAN on a system running some version of Linux.  And, the CUPS server is setup to share the printer to all systems on the LAN.

I think you are saying that F20 client systems are unable to detect the network printer when you run something like "system-config-printer" and try to add a printer.  The F20 client systems' firewall has been modified to allow ipp-client packets.

I ask this since I've got a Synology NAS running a CUPS server and sharing an HP printer.  My F20 systems are able to detect the printer just fine.

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