Tim: >> The clients should have the original default cupsd.conf and >> client.conf files (they need nothing done to them for browsing >> to work). Anne Wilson: > Your comment about the client.conf file surprises me, as I have always > had to add the server name in there - though nothing else. If you want a client to use a particular server, you enter its address into the client.conf file. If you want your client to use whatever printers are offered to the network, then leave it as-is (no particular client written into the client.conf file). The server should announce itself to the network every 30 seconds, and all the clients should keep note of what's available to them (multiple printers, and/or print servers). This does require the server to be set up to allow browsing. It's not by default, according to the documentation. And, as it appears to me, it doesn't quite work as you'd expect it to, as far as @LOCAL as a BrowseAddress is concerned (that sets the address that the server broadcasts its availability to). Those two factors are probably the spanner in the works. At some stage, it worked for me, in the past. I don't know why it stopped. I don't recall changing the BrowseAddress parameter, though I do know that some printer configuration tools will re-arrange the configuration file. I seriously dislike how they remove options set in their proper places in the file, and just tacks them onto the end. I'm remembering to keep a back-up, this time around. The other thing that REALLY IRRITATES me about printing, is how I'll set the printer to be A4 paper, as a system setting. But each and every application ignores that and requires hand configuring from US Letter to A4. For heck's sake, start off with what *I've* configured as the default. Bloody fool programmers!!! I can't even buy US-Letter sized paper in Australia without seriously hunting around for it. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
