Every time I update the OS on my laptops, I have to add the CUPS printer settings for the in office systems. It used to be that there was an internally usable RPM to do this, but I always thought that it was not really a clean enough solution.
So, this post is more of a reminder to myself that all I need to do is the following:
echo “BrowsePoll cups.server.domain.com” >> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
service cups restart
And, viola, like magic, the printers get discovered and all is well. Nice.
Graphically you can do this with system-config-printer: Server -> Settings… -> Advanced Server Settings. In “Browse servers”, click Add.
Thanks, Tim.
The system-config-printer option does not get called from the GNOME 3 Settings option unfortunately.
Time to file a bug report.
On Fedora 16 I had to use “systemctl restart cups.service” instead of “service cups restart”
actually, service cups restart gets redirected to what you wrote. I guess over a period of time, “service cups restart” will get deprecated. thanks for pointing this out.