Comment 51 for bug 465916

Zerocool3001:

would a ppa for the avahi-daemon with the latest version 0.6.28 do the trick
for all?

2010/11/18 Zerocool3001 <email address hidden>

> Thawn: To respond to your question from some time ago (post #40), the
> default configuration file for Snow Leopard (which I am using) contains
> the line
>
> BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS dnssd
>
> My guess is that the local instance of dnssd picks up shared printers on
> the network and passes them to CUPS. It may be that adding the
> BrowseRemoteProtocols line bypasses this method and instead checks the
> network directly for CUPS shared printers.
>
> However this solution still requires editing a configuration file on the
> client side, something most users will not want to do. While it may work
> in the meantime, it would be a problem for users to do this whenever
> they wanted to connect to a printer shared from an Ubuntu server.
>
> Lorenz: The problem here (and the solution) lies within the Avahi
> implementation. It hasn't kept up with the changes to the CUPS library
> in 1.4. Likely the only solution here is update the Avahi package to use
> the new API's. However, seeing as there has been no action on this bug,
> I don't know that it will be fixed anytime soon.
>
> --
> CUPS DNS-SD (Bonjour/mDNS/Zeroconf/Avahi) not broadcasting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465916
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