Cups client can't find cups server

[Nathan Howell]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 21:36 +0200, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> However, my ubuntu box does NOT do that.  I don't know cups very well
> and all documentation I find just say "do nothing on the clients"
> kindof.
> 
> I have verified that the ubuntu box get's the broadcasts using
> ethereal and everything looks fine.
> 
> Is this a bug? Has anybody else seen this? Or suceeded in using a cups
> client with automatic setup?

The default Ubuntu cups setup doesn't listen to the broadcasts by
default. It's part of the "no open ports" policy. Personally, I think
this is a mistake, and the default cups setup *should* be listening for
these broadcasts. At the very least, gnome-cups-manager could use some
help to make sharing printers easier.

Anyway, if you look in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, you can enable browsing
easily. Make sure the line Browsing On is present and uncommented and
restart cups.

Nathan