Printing changes required.

[Michael Hunt]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 07:56 +0300, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> George Farris wrote:

<snip>
> > 3) Browsing for printers would be nice as well.
> 
> Browsing is harder to implement when you consider the 'no listening
> ports' policy. I just wish that someday the cups people will consider
> IPv6 as the 'browsing' protocol. Life would be so much fun if the
> printer information was sent to a organization wide multicast address.
> 
> Ah well, IPv6 will never come, IPv4 addresses are infinite. If IPv4
> works, why replace it? Right?!

You can currently (as of Hoary) turn browsing on for the client by
choosing the 'Detect LAN Printers' option under the Global Settings Menu
in the System --> Administration --> Printing window.

I think this is an adequate solution for the 'no listening ports' policy
but I suspect something needs to be done for the user who wants to share
there printer with another client (Linux/Mac/Win). As far as I
understand it this requires hand editing the cups.conf file which may
not be in the realm of a novice user. Also this doesn't take into
account the extra steps needed to share a printer with a Windows client
(installation and configuration of samba is required for that).

Michael Hunt