Printing from warty to a win2k domain printer?

[Senectus .]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:07:33 -0000 (GMT), Chris Jones <cmsj at tenshu.net> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, November 25, 2004 23:22, Senectus . said:
> > How do I print to a networked printer on a win2k domain print server
> > from ubuntu when I don't know what the printers name is?
> 
> I can't see an easy solution to that unfortunately, gnome-cups-manager can
> do network searching, but the ubuntu version (at least in hoary) seems to
> be built without libsmb support, so it doesn't do it.
> 
> This probably ought to be fixed, easy printer setup is a good goal. Also I
> notice that nautilus doesn't show printers when it is browsing the
> network. It should and should provide a hook to the gnome cups stuff to
> add printers *really* easily.
> 
> Sorry that's not really a solution, but it might be worth filing a bug
> about not having libsmb support in gnome-cups-manager, it wouldn't take
> long to fix (it might also not be suitable for warty now that it is
> released).
> 
> Check the samba documentation at samba.org - I believe you can use its
> tools  (smbclient, nmblookup) to find a list of machines on the network
> and then list their shares/printers. Or perhaps someone on this list knows
> them.
> 

Thanks very much for the concise and quick reply!
I'm extremely surprised that this isn't something thats been made yet,
as it seems to me to be a very logical requirement.
Is posting a "bug report" the best way to approach it though? surely
this is a new feature request and not a "bug" as such?
or is that just my poor understanding for how the system works? 


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