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Description of problem: If you set the printer server in client.conf ServerName cupstest or on the CLI lp commands using -h flag , printers aren't visible. How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a cups server that gets it's printers from either BrowsePoll or just broadcast "Browsing On". 2. Try lpstat -h localhost -a -p , works (on the cups server machine) 3. Try lpstat -h cupstest -a -p, empty or just local printers it there are any. Actual results: # lpstat -h localhost -a -p cupstestprinter accepting requests since Tue 08 Feb 2011 10:56:52 AM GMT But, # lpstat -h cupstest -a -p # , generates nothing (or just the local printers). Expected results: I'd have thought, # lpstat -h cupstest -a -p cupstestprinter accepting requests since Tue 08 Feb 2011 10:56:52 AM GMT # , it's what earlier versions do (on RHEL 4 and RHEL 5). BTW this is still broken on F14's cups version. Additional info: Breaks any IPP clients that don't have cups on them, where the printers aren't local to the cups server (but obtained by Browsing in any form). This looks like the bug on the upstream but they closed it :( http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3488 , it certainly isn't permissions as someone suggests here (unless very obscure ones) as local printers show up perfectly.
This is intentional: printers are only shared once and are not re-shared. If you are using only one cupsd instance and accessing it remotely from clients, you'll need to explicitly define queues on that server.