samba printers not detected
Bug #295065 reported by
ororo
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kdeadmin (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Jonathan Riddell |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cupsys
This is not really a bug, but a request of feature.
The feature was present in Kubuntu 8.04 but I cannot find it in 8.10.
I tried to install a lan printer via samba. In 8.04, the installer automatically showed me the list of available networks/samba servers/ printers. In 8.10 it doesn't, and I have to manually type them (but I not always remember their names!!!)
Please consider adding this feature, or tell me how to activate it if it is already present.
Changed in system-config-printer-kde: | |
assignee: | nobody → jr |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in kdeadmin (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
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Kubuntu 8.10 switched from the KDE 3.x generation to the KDE 4.x generation. Unfortunately, the KDE Printing Manager was unmaintained in KDE 2.x and 3.x and got therefore dropped in KDE 4.x. This left the KDE/Qt world without a sophisticated printer setup tool. In the beginning of this year efforts were started to create a KDE frontend for system- config- printer, but they did not make much progress. Most of system- config- printer' s sophisticated functionality is not yet ported into the KDE version.
system- config- printer (the original GTK-based version) has the functionality you need. So as a first workaround for the time being you should install this version via
sudo apt-get install system- config- printer- gnome