bonjour printer access non-functional in rawhide

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 11:38:12 UTC 2009


>>  Has anyone been able to get rawhide to provide Bonjour printer
>> access from the printer configuration tool? This was working in F9
>> but now (with the avahi-tools installed and the mDNS port opened
>> on the firewall or the firewall completely disabled), shared Bonjour
>> printers don't appear in the discovered printers of
>> the printer configuration tool. I am not sure exactly which
>> component to file a bug report against. I also was puzzled that
>> cups no longer installs avahi-tools. I filed a bug report about
>> that in F9 and they changed cups to fixed that issue (which now
>> seems to be regressed).
>
> This is meant to be working in rawhide (although DNS-SD support has been
> disabled in Fedora 9/10 for the time being).
>
> It was working for me the last time I tested it against a network print
> server.  Do you get output when you run '/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd' from
> the command line?

Also I think it was allowed through the firewall by default in F-9 and
has since been blocked by default.

Peter




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