On Wed 11 Aug 2021 at 13:42:00 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:14:10AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 11 Aug 2021 at 08:00:44 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Le 10/08/2021 à 21:48, Brian a écrit : > > > > On Tue 10 Aug 2021 at 20:57:56 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > We'll see at that time, especially since what I read from > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting makes it unable to > > > > > handle > > > > > the cases where you must use a print serer or the one where you're not > > > > > on the same network as the printer. > > > > > > > > Perhaps cups-browsed migt help you. > > > > > > > > > > No all zeroconf based scheme is limited to the local (L2 network). And > > > printer on a separate network is the standard setup in offices. > > > > I thought you might have read cups-browsed.conf(5). Doesn't the > > BrowsePoll directive provide a solution? > > Using BrowsePoll to overcome that problem assumes that you know what > IP/hostname your printer(s) have. > I.e. instead of relying on DNS-SD autodiscovery (which is limited to a > single L2 network segment) one you're proposing to hardcode printers' > IPs/hostnames into cups-browsed.conf.
I was actually pointing the user in the direction of something he might not have been aware of, not proposing a definitive solution. You are correct about hardcoding IPs/hostnames, but the same has to be done with a client.conf. > But this makes cups-browsed redundant, because one might as well use > ServerName in client.conf instead and achieve the same result. And > probably it will even work better as it will skip that per-minute poll. You can have only a single ServerName but multiple BrowsePoll entries. > > Using Samba's printer sharing makes much more sense in a such setup. The user now has three possible solutions. -- Brian.
