Re: FYI: 8.5 and 7.11 planning
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 09:15:21PM +0200, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 05:34:44PM +0200, Giorgio Pioda wrote:
> > Well, what I see is that on old wheezy clients after a BrowsePoll
> > i get the printers queues exactly like on the server. On Jessie
> > clients after cups-browser work (and automatic BrowsePoll) I get the
> > queues that looks differently. Both BrowsePoll are getting
> > the queues from my jessie-tjener in productions since july 2015.
> >
> > I suspect that older cups-client gets ppd from tjener and that
> > the newer Jessie cups-clients get the queues from the tjener BUT
> > the ppd directly from the printer, just because of the new
> > default ppd distribution policy of cups server. IIRC I read
> > some time ago, somewhere, about this policy change in cups/ppd
> > distribution. Maybe I'm totally wrong; but the different looking queues
> > are there.
>
> Thanks for the feedback, Giorgio.
>
> As far as I know the printer detection on the network changed from cups
> to mdns. So now the package libnss-mdns must be installed to assure the
> detection. I've set up a Debian Edu jessie based VirtualBox environment.
> After installing libnss-mdns on a workstation applications were aware of
> the printers configured on tjener. The printers were added automaticly
> to /etc/cups/printers.conf on the workstation.
>
> Wolfgang
Hi,
I'll test it again in the afternoon.
Regards
Giorgio
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