[Bug 56957] adding a windows printer in a large network is painful

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Public bug reported:

When there are 1000s of hosts, fiinding the right print server takes
ages in the drop down list. Typing the print servers name in the host
field doesn't work, it doesn't list the servers printers in the printer
field, whereas if you find the server in the host drop down list, and
click it, it does list it's printers.

To make matters worse, bug 32112 makes it almost impossible to find the
server in time.

Every few seconds, a popup asks me to authenticate to a domain, there
appears to be a never ending stream of popups on this network, and I'm
only interested in authenticating to one domain. Each time a popup
occurs, it closes the host drop down list, making it very difficult to
scan through the 1000s of hosts to find the right print server, I get
part way through the lists of hosts, a popup interrupts me and closes
the drop down list, making me start from the top of the host list again.

** Affects: gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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adding a windows printer in a large network is painful
https://launchpad.net/bugs/56957