Re: cups client printers autodetect fails

[Wolfgang Schweer <wschweer@arcor.de>]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:12:07PM +0200, Giorgio Pioda wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:43:41PM +0200, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 01:09:59PM +0200, Giorgio Pioda wrote:
> > > 
> > > in wheezy I configured all the printers on tjener and
> > > setting the BrowseAddress to 10.164.89.255 for my 10.164.88.0/23
> > > the queues where published to the WS clients automagically.
> > > 
> > > Same on jessie doesn't work. Did change some basic behaviour in cups?
> >  
> > There were changes from wheezy to jessie, but last time I tested during 
> > development (maybe months ago) client printing worked out of the box.
> > 
> > Checked once again.
> > 
> > After setting up a printer called 'hp' on tjener it shows up on the 
> > client at once, but with a strange, wrong URI:
> > 
> > device for samsung: ipps://tjener.local:631/printers/hp
> > 
> > Will have to find out why .local is appended. Once adjusted on the client 
> > (tjener.local replaced with tjener), printing works.
> > 
> > Wolfgang
> 
> 
> I could check it from home. Fully confirmed.
> 
> IIRC the .local domain is the default avahi domain.
 
For some reason the NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution seems 
to be required now to resolve the avahi domain.

Please test if printing works after installing the package libnss-mdns on 
the clients.

Wolfgang