Why doesn't Fedora 20 find my print server?

[Thomas Woerner]

On 05/21/2014 09:56 AM, 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?
>
Please make sure to enable and start the cups-browsed service. This is 
needed nowadays to have the CUPS protocol and part of the cups-filters 
package.

For the firewall, just enable the ipp-client service in the zone you are 
using - if not enabled already.

Thomas