Avahi patch upstream in CUPS 1.6.0
Hi,
I have packaged CUPS 1.6.0 for Debian an Ubuntu anddid the first tests.
CUPS broadcasting is removed, so printers shared by a serve do not
automatically appear on a listening client.
So clients can only discover printers by Bonjour/DNS-SD/mDNS, which
requires a well working Avahi support implementation on the server side.
Tim, according to SVN log and release announcement, CUPS 1.6.0 has
incorporated your Avahi patch and this I tried now by trying to access
from a client.
Unfortunately I ran into major problems:
- avahi-discover does not see the shared printers on the server.
- system-config-printer also does not see the CUPS server, on "Find
network printers" the queues get listed under th "Connections" when
entering the server's host name. Selecting a queue leads to
system-config-printer entering an infinite loop on the driver search,
due to the fact that system-config-printer does not recognize tha this
isa remote CUPS queue andso the clienthasto creat a raw queue and that
the device ID discovered by system-config-printer is "MFG:;MDL:;". This
means that the data blob reurned by CUPS 1.6.0 on the Avahi request is
white noise, empty, or otherwise broken.
Tim, did you have already a look whether the Avahi implementation in
CUPS 1.6.0 is correct? Is it actually based on your patch?
Till
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