cups-browsed(8)

1cups-browsed(8)                                                cups-browsed(8)
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NAME

6       cups-browsed  - A daemon for browsing the Bonjour broadcasts of shared,
7       remote CUPS printers
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SYNOPSIS

10       cups-browsed [-v | -d | --debug]
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DESCRIPTION

14       cups-browsed has three independently switchable functions:
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16       1.  Browse Bonjour broadcasts  of  remote  printers  and  create/remove
17           local raw queues pointing to these printers.
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19       2.  Browse  CUPS  broadcasts of remote printers and create/remove local
20           raw queues pointing to these printers.
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22       3.  Broadcast local queues with the CUPS protocol.
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OPTIONS

25       -v, -d, --debug
26              Debug mode
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FILES

29       /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf
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NOTES

32       Please take references to cups 1.6.x to include newer versions.   Simi‐
33       larily, cups 1.5.x is intended to encompass older versions too.
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35       In  environments  with  only cups 1.6.x servers and clients (plus cups-
36       browsed on either server or client or both) the function  described  in
37       1.   enables the automatic discovery of remote queues and their display
38       in printing dialogues of applications and with command line tools.
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40       The facility provided by 3. means that servers running cups 1.6.x  plus
41       cups-browsed can broadcast their local queues so that clients with cups
42       1.5.x get these queues automatically available. The outcome  of  2.  is
43       that  clients  running  cups  1.6.x  plus cups-browsed can use the CUPS
44       broadcasts from servers with cups 1.5.x. As with  browsing  of  Bonjour
45       broadcasts,  the created local raw queues are available to applications
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AUTHOR

54       The authors of  cups-browsed  are  listed  in  /usr/share/doc/cups-fil‐
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57       This manual page was written for the Debian Project, but it may be used
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