Cups client can't find cups server

[Erik Bågfors]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:11:02 -0700, Nathan Howell <nathan at crapbox.org> wrote:
> 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.

I have to agree.  There are two things that doesn't agree with
eachother here.   One is "just work" and the other "secure by
default".  In this case I think there are no known security problems
with cups listening to the broadcast.

Would someone please explain one thing to me. In nautilus I can search
my windows network. I THINK that this also works by listening to
broadcast messages if I remember my CIFS right.  What's the difference
between this and cups? sure, cups is a "server" but it's not running
as root or my user while the nautilus-windows-stuff is runnin as my
user.  Why would that be more secure?

But then again, maybe that's not the way windows networking works.

> 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.

Thanks, I already found it.  I must have been blind when I searched
that file yesterday.

Regards,
Erik