Comment 38 for bug 465916

As I understand a real server work around requires different software
versions (older cups or newer libdns?).

A manual work around would involve placing .service files for each
printer in the /etc/avahi/services/ folder. It seems challenging to
write the content of the file though. There are few working examples
on the net. This post may get someone started:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2007-April/001039.html

anyone with more insight, please let me know. Or if you are really a
guru in this area, would it be possible to write a script that
generates the .service files?

last idea, but I haven't tried it: netatalk can broadcast printers
using apple talk protocol. But I am not sure if that is still enabled
by default on the new macs.

2010/6/10 Thawn <email address hidden>:
> Matt: Sorry, I misunderstood.
> Zerocool: I have to disagree, following the steps in my comments #3 and #6 fixes the issue for mac clients (it has done so for me and several other users). This is because it enables PRINTER discovery via cups which afaik is disabled by default on mac machines (at least on snow leopard and leopard). Please try the steps I suggested and tell me if that works for you.
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> CUPS DNS-SD (Bonjour/mDNS/Zeroconf/Avahi) not broadcasting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465916
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