detect lan printers no longer settable

[Heitzso]

Running current Hardy Heron (April 20, 2008)
remote printers not shown in gnome-cups-manager
and "detect lan printers" is greyed out
(cannot be clicked)

This is true whether click to start gnome-cups-manager
via System->Administration and on down to g-c-m
or if I start g-c-m from a root terminal (having set
a password for root, setting DISPLAY, running xhost +
etc.)

Net is, even running g-c-m as root I cannot set the
"detect lan printers" and all of my printers are hooked to
servers. I would tag this as a show stopper for Hardy.

[Heitzso (heitzso)]

my print server is running gutsy
my client is running hardy
not sure which cups upgrade broke (gutsy or hardy)
but the old permissions problem crept back in w/ a cups update to one or the other
I fixed by (on both client and server ubuntu systems)
   chown -R lp:lp cups*
from /var/cache
        /var/spool
        /var/lib
        /etc
and restarting cupsys
on both printer server
and client

This bit ubuntu before.
Silly bug that should not have crept back in.
Particularly days before a release.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

reassigning to cupsys then.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Heitzso (heitzso)]

In Ibex 8.10 detect lan printer and share printers options are still
greyed out.
However remote printers are shown. My 8.10 I'm testing on was upgraded
through several generations of Ubuntu. Is there perhaps a magic cups
configuration
file and config line?

[Alex Bennée (ajbennee)]

Can confirm this is still a problem on 8.04 Hardy Heron. I guess bugs don't get fixed on Hardy unless they are confirmed on later builds :-(

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Heitzso (heitzso)]

I haven't hit this since way back. If it was still a problem other people would be making noise. Please assume the bug is gone. Thanks.