Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Add this line to Apple's cupsd.conf: >> >> BrowseRemoteProtocols all >> BrowseProtocols All > > > I wanted to reply to this once I had a chance to revisit the topic and > figure out what as going on. Well, here I am! > > It turns out that it was a client-side cups misconfiguration issue. I > didn't expect that because it didn't work on my Ubuntu laptop. So, it > *must* have been the server ;) > > Well, Ubuntu or any other recently installed box running cups likely > defaults BrowseRemoteProtocols to "dnssd" and older systems are > usually set to "cups". The server I'm using has CUPS 1.1 and its > default (not stated in the config) is "cups". All the new Macs in the > office and my Ubuntu laptop default to "dnssd" (again, not explicitly > stated in the config). Older Macs have "cups" as a default and work > out-of-the-box. > > It didn't help that the OFFICIAL docs state the following: > The BrowseRemoteProtocols directive specifies the protocols to use > when finding remote shared printers on the network. <snip/> The > default is . > > All we did was add the "BrowseRemoteProtocols all" parameter to > /etc/cups/cupsd.config.default and did a Printing-System-Reset" via > the OSX GUI. The fresh config picked up the new default and it was > smooth sailing from there. > > BTW, setting the server to do dnssd was not an option as it doesn't > look like it was supported back in 1.1. Also, we didn't want to mess > with the BrowseProtocols as it would add more noise to the growing > list of printers already showing up on the network. In fact, maybe I > should have set it to "none". > > Thanks all for the help! >
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