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[Boris Epstein <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Per Jessen<per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Boris Epstein wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Per Jessen<per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Boris Epstein wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello listmates,
> > > >
> > > > Just wondering if anybody knows off the top of their head which
> > > > services I need to allow in my firewall in order to allow my
> > > > OpenSuSE 11.1 system to find printers on the local network. I tried
> > > > Zeroconf but no luck thus far.
> > >
> > > Cups uses udp on port 631.
> >
> > Thanks, Per!
> >
> > Opening incoming connections to UDP 631 as well as from UDP 631 does
> > not seem to help... So I am guessing it must be something else
> > involved here.
>
> Boris, mheck that your cups-server is setup to broadcast the printers -
> there is a checkbox under the Management tab.
>
> /Per
>
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> Per Jessen, Zürich (23.9°C)
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Why should it matter if I am broadcasting my printers? I am trying to
find other printers on the network, not share mine (I got none
attached to this machine anyhow, hence I've got nothing to share).

Boris.
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