cups not finding cups servers automatically
Bug #8975 reported by
Erik Bågfors
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cupsys (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Sivan Greenberg |
Bug Description
I have a cups server that broadcasts it's printer information every 30 seconds
(default mode). Macs, SuSE-boxes, etc all find the server automatically by
listening to the broadcast. They all add the printer to for example the print
dialog in OOo.
Yet my ubuntu-boxes do NOT do this. I have verified that they recive the
broadcast by using ethereal.
Also, if using the gnome-cups-manager I get "No printers detected" although the
box get's the broadcast.
Perhaps this is just a setting in cups but I cannot find it and I also think
it's a bug that that setting is not default in that case.
Regards,
Erik
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For security reasons ubuntu does not ship any listening daemon:
http:// wiki.ubuntulinu x.org/SecurityP olicy
on the otherside we are still searching a way to let these kind of features to work
maintaing a high security profile.
To change the default settings you can check the cupsd.conf for browsing.
Downgrading this bug as enhancement request.