Ports for Bonjour Printing?

We're having some problems with printing over the network.

The network is segmented into many pieces, and each wireless vlan is in its own subnet. All student laptops in my department are in the "apple" vlan, while the four workstations and instructor laptops are in "sdsuwireless" We can share a plotter to anything else in the sdsuwireless vlan from the G5 it's connected to, but the student systems are unable to see it. The IP is static and ports tcp/515, tcp/631, and udp/5353 are open to it, but it doesn't help.

I finally found the following list on a kb article this morning:
tcp/515 Used for printing to a network printer, Printer Sharing in Mac OS X.
tcp/5297 iChat (local traffic), Bonjour (formerly "Rendezvous")
tcp/5298 iChat (local traffic), Bonjour (formerly "Rendezvous")
udp/5298 iChat (local traffic), Bonjour (formerly "Rendezvous")
udp/5353 Bonjour (formerly "Rendezvous") (mDNSResponder)

Before I email the network guys (who have far more things to do than try every new port that I can find for them to open), does anyone have a list of what ports are actually required to do Printer Sharing in OS X? All systems are OS X, I think we're down to just 10.3 and 10.4.

Posted on Oct 18, 2005 10:23 AM

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Nov 18, 2005 11:41 PM in response to Merged Content 2

Well, unfortunately, Rendezvous (Bonjour) is not routable across subnets. I have a VPN between 2 locations and it does not even work there. There is a 3rd party software (I have NOT used or tested it) that MAY help, but I would rather recommend setting up the printers in DNS and do it that way.

The 3rd party trick is:
http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/NetworkBeacon.html

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