Printer discovery broken after "server" upgraded to Fedora 19

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 11:34 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > Ok, not complaining to anyone on this thread, but I would love to see
> > the rational for per application printer discovery! That makes
> > absolutely no sense to me.
>
> It's not that it's per-application -- rather, it's done in the client
> libraries of CUPS (libcups) rather than in the server.
>
> One reason to do it this way is to avoid needing to run a CUPS server on
> the client at all, while still retaining automatic discovery.
>

Ok, I think I was confusing the gtk3/gtk2 talk in the bug report....



> > If it's per-application I'm guessing I'll have to do the latter
> > because cups-browsed doesn't appear to be available on F18...
>
> If you're using F-18 clients and want things to work "as before", use
> CUPS Browsing. For that you'll need to enable cups-browsed on the server
> and configure it to announce printers using the "CUPS" protocol rather
> than DNS-SD.


That's what's weird... I tried that (as far as I could tell) and it didn't
work, but when I restored my conf file and stopped cups-browsed then it
started working!

I did a diff between the F19 defail cupsd.conf and the existing one from
F18 biggest difference seems to be:

Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseRemoteProtocols CUPS
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS dnssd

But one side effect is when I try to go into the printer properties on the
client, there's almost nothing there (in the gnome3 one).

I'm also having problems with system-config-printer similar to the "can't
add printers" BZ.

I was trying to do all this remotely from work yesterday to get my wife
printing but I'm home today so if you want to try anything or get
information today is the day to do it!

Thanks,
Richard
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