Network printer issues

Hi guys,

at work we have a network printer that supports ZeroConf
advertising 
(and indeed it's advertising itself on the network) but I
can't manage 
to get it displayed when running avahi-browse -a.

So I dug up the printer configuration and noticed that it
advertises 
itself on the local network as
printer_name._printer._tcp.local. Is 
there a way for me to force Avahi to recognize this pattern
and actually 
display this printer when I run avahi-browse?

I have CUPS with DNSSD enabled but it doesn't display this
printer and 
I'm guessing it's because Avahi skips it. If this should
be completely 
transparent to Avahi let me know and also apologise for
bothering you 
with these small details.

Cheers,
Celso



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Hi Celso,

The reason for this is that avahi-browse -a uses a method of
discovery
which first determines what services types are available on
the network,
and then goes and queries those service types - now not all
devices (and
apparently not your printer) advertise that they are
advertise service
types (if that makes sense.)

If you specifically browsed for the printer with
avahi-browse
_printer._tcp, it would appear.

I do wonder if avahi-browse should look for a common bunch
of services
by default?

Cheers,
Trent

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:48:40PM +0100, Celso Pinto wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> at work we have a network printer that supports
ZeroConf advertising 
> (and indeed it's advertising itself on the network)
but I can't manage 
> to get it displayed when running avahi-browse -a.
> 
> So I dug up the printer configuration and noticed that
it advertises 
> itself on the local network as
printer_name._printer._tcp.local. Is 
> there a way for me to force Avahi to recognize this
pattern and actually 
> display this printer when I run avahi-browse?
> 
> I have CUPS with DNSSD enabled but it doesn't display
this printer and 
> I'm guessing it's because Avahi skips it. If this
should be completely 
> transparent to Avahi let me know and also apologise for
bothering you 
> with these small details.
> 
> Cheers,
> Celso
> 
> 
> 
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Trent Lloyd <lathiatbur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.
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