On Sunday, 10 April 2022 08:54:07 EDT Brian wrote: > On Sun 10 Apr 2022 at 05:46:35 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > This, FWIW, has nothing to do with cups and printer sharing, cups > > does > > its own advertising. All printers here are attached to this machine, > > marked as shareable and I can put stuff on their output trays from > > any > > machine including the rpi4 on my local network. > > Indeed, CUPS does do its own advertising of print queue and uses > mDNS/DNS-SD. That is its *only* technique it has available for > sharing the queues. > > mDNS/DNS-SD requires avahi-daemon to be active. Without it there > isn't any sharing and advertising. > > So, I do not understand "...has nothing to do with...". > The avahi-daemon has either been removed by rm. or by chmod -x on all machines here, yet cups shared printers (plural) can use those shared printers just as if they were plugged into that machine. So IMO removing or disabling avahi-daemon has nothing to do with cups sharing. You are saying it won't work, but it does here. What else is there except cups.
> -- > Brian. > > . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
