Hi Martin,
AFAICS your suggestion in dapper
sudo /usr/share/cups/enable_sharing 1
is NOT the solution. This only changes listen in ports.conf
and 'sharing' is confusing here. 'sharing' is for
most users c) descripted below
We have three major use cases:
a) local-printer-user, aka I use my local printer and don't care about
other computers -- this is dappers default setup
b) cups-printer-client, aka I want to use automaticly see and use
printer (served by cups) on the lan -- this needs:
browse.conf Browsing off -> on
cupsd.conf: BrowseAddress @LOCAL <- comment it out!!
2nd step is necessary, otherwise you announce locally installed printers on
LANs (sec bug: information leaking),
get hopelessly bombed with request of other cups installations in TCP 631. that
can never work because of
Listen 631
c) cups printer server, aka you want to make you local printers
available to all computers of type b).
browse.conf Browing off -> on
ports.conf Listen localhost 631 -> Port 631
in case information leak bug in b) is fixed, also
cupsd.conf BrowseAddress @LOCAL <-- comment out only for print server ;)
So a simple command that manipulates ports.conf or
browse.conf is not (IMHO) a solution. This has to be
changed to support a) b) and c) to be user-friendly.
Aunt Mary has no glue how UDP and TCP play together
to get want she wants ;)
So this, I can see the printer(s) but can't print to is/will be in
almost all dapper cases 'Browsing on' and by default
BrowseAddress @LOCAL enable.
Achim -- just run into the b) bug filling syslog with firewall drop msg
-- still searching the most appropriate bug report to report bug in b)
--
(breezy) Cups cannot print to browsed printer
https://launchpad.net/bugs/23211
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