Re: Network printer autodetection in Plasma 6

Le dimanche 26 janvier 2025, 12:28:10 UTC+1 Shai Berger a écrit :
> Hi again list,
> 
> As I mentioned here before, I went from a partially-upgraded testing (a
> progress from KDE 5 to 6) to a newly-installed one. One thing I had a
> problem restoring is the auto-detected network printer.
> 
> Now, those of you who read https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206 carefully
> might already guess what the problem was, and you'd be mostly correct:
> The main issue was that network printer autodetection depends on mdns
> which is, well, a network service, and the newly installed firewall
> blocks those.
> 
> So I figured it out, added a rule for mdns, and sailed on.
> 
> But it made me think: I am a relatively sophisticated user. The whole
> point of mdns is for things to work "out of the box". The rules I had
> on by default were to allow incoming ssh and dhcpv6 (not sure if it's
> because I picked the "SSH Server" component in installation). Shouldn't
> we allow mdns in by default?

I think this makes sense.

Would you share your mdns rule ?
Do you know by any chance how to ship packaged firewalld rules ?


Thanks,
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Aurélien