Closing Release Notes task as we have re-introduced the CUPS
Broadcasting/Browsing feature (bug 1061063, bug 1061069).
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes
Status: New = Invalid
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Title:
Printer sharing via CUPS broadcasting
I guess this was to be expected with Apple being in charge of CUPS. No
longer having network printers automatically discovered and needing the
drivers on the client-side are two of the worst regressions in Ubuntu
and GNU/Linux in general that I've seen in years.
Fork time? Seriously, this is bad.
@Kevin
It will actually be worse than on Windows where shared printer are
automatically added...
I wish we could downgrade cups for quantal until those features are back
in one form or another...
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AFAIK you do not need the driver on the client. See comment #3 for details.
you will only get asked for a queue name, not for a driver. I can confirm
that if done correctly you do not get asked for a driver.
On Wednesday, October 03, 2012 04:51:23 PM Kevin Keijzer wrote:
I guess this was to be
See bug 1061063 for the need of re-introducing the feature of remote
printers automatically appearing in print dialogs.
** Summary changed:
- Printer sharing via CUPS broadcasting dropped in CUPS 1.6.x
+ Printer sharing via CUPS broadcasting dropped in CUPS 1.6.x, some adjustments
needed
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Do I understand correctly that this means that there is no longer a way
to automatically show all queues available in the user's current
location and that we have to manually add each printer on each location
(and that those printers won't disappear when the user moves somewhere
else)?
If that's
See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735404
** Bug watch added: Novell/SUSE Bugzilla #735404
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735404
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** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Committed
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Title:
Printer sharing via CUPS broadcasting dropped in CUPS
This bug was fixed in the package cups - 1.6.1-0ubuntu8
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cups (1.6.1-0ubuntu8) quantal; urgency=low
* debian/cups.postinst: Clean /etc/cups/cupsd.conf from all keywords and
settings which got obsolete with the dropping CUPS Broadcasting/Browsing
in CUPS 1.6.x:
This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer -
1.3.11+20120807-0ubuntu9
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system-config-printer (1.3.11+20120807-0ubuntu9) quantal; urgency=low
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debian/patches/35_server-settings-dont-show-widgets-of-obsolete-cups-features.patch:
With the dropping of the CUPS
More obsolete keywords incupsd.conf are BrowseDeny and BrowsePoll.
Note that due to bug 1036974 CUPS crashes if there is an invalid keyword
in cupsd.conf.
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** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Committed
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Title:
Printer sharing via CUPS broadcasting
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