Accessing a printer attached to a Airport Express (bonjour)

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 13/12/05, Mike Smith <mikeosmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I understand it Bounjour (presumably Avahi too) will show you a
> list of available "services" on your network. I'm imagining Avahi will
> add the ability to connect to Bonjour capable services advertised on
> your network. Good luck.

Just to finish this thread off, I installed all the Avahi pieces and
it works as advertised -- I can browse all the services on the home
net. Unfortunately, it also has the drawback I expected: There doesn't
seem to be a way to *use* that printer that I can now see, directly. I
shared it over Windows for now. It works fine that way.

If I could spawn another me, it would be an interesting project to
attach mdns services to the CUPS interface somehow. With python-avahi,
I doubt it would be tough. I know there are several efforts to attach
to music streams from iTunes this way.

-Eamonn