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Maciej Piechotka
Asked: 2010-08-08 06:44:11 +0800 CST

Avahi & cups on FreeBSD

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I set up cups and avahi on FreeBSD 8.0. However cups printer does not shows in avahi-browse -a on client (other things like ssh server are shown). Additionally if I try to run avahi-browse -a on server it does not succeed:

# avahi-browse -a
Failed to create client object: Daemon not running

CUPS is built with avahi support. Dbus is running. Cups have sharing enabled in web interface.

cups freebsd avahi

1 Answers

  1. For second problem, add avahi daemon to autostart and run it:

    PH34R# echo "avahi_daemon_enable=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
PH34R# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon start
Starting avahi-daemon.
PH34R# avahi-browse -a
+   bge0 IPv4 PH34R                      _workstation._tcp    local
....snip....
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