There's a Bonjour branch, which uses Apple's Bonjour! Lennart Poettering schrieb: > On Tue, 25.07.06 09:41, Norman Ramsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >> > On Tue, 25.07.06 09:13, Norman Ramsey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. > > > I grepped through the sources of cups 1.2.1 now: > > <snip> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp/cupsys-1.2.1$ egrep > '(dns.?sd|mdns|bonjour|rendezvous|avahi)' -i -R . > ./doc/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html:BrowseLocalProtocols dns-sd > ./doc/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html:BrowseLocalProtocols cups dns-sd > ./doc/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html:BrowseProtocols dns-sd > ./doc/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html:BrowseProtocols cups dns-sd > ./doc/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html:BrowseRemoteProtocols dns-sd > ./doc/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html:BrowseRemoteProtocols cups dns-sd > ./scheduler/main.c: (!Browsing || !(BrowseLocalProtocols & BROWSE_DNSSD) > || > ./scheduler/conf.c: else if (!strcasecmp(valstart, "dnssd") || > !strcasecmp(valstart, "bonjour")) > ./scheduler/conf.c: protocols |= BROWSE_DNSSD; > ./scheduler/sysman.c: /* TODO: Possibly update when MDNS support is added? > */ > ./scheduler/sysman.c: * TODO: This might need updating for MDNS. > ./scheduler/dirsvc.h:#define BROWSE_DNSSD 8 /* DNS > Service Discovery aka Bonjour */ > ./man/cupsd.conf.man.in:BrowseProtocols [All] [CUPS] [DNSSD] [LDAP] [SLP] > ./man/cupsd.conf.man.in:BrowseLocalProtocols [All] [CUPS] [DNSSD] [LDAP] [SLP] > ./man/cupsd.conf.man.in:BrowseRemoteProtocols [All] [CUPS] [DNSSD] [LDAP] > [SLP] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/tmp/cupsys-1.2.1$ > </snip> > > What can we read from this? CUPS parses the config option "dnssd" and > it is even documented. But there is no actual implementation of it in the > sources! With neither the Bonjour not the Avahi API! > > I wonder what they have been smoking when they did this. Looks a > little bit unprofessional to me... > > Lennart >
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