Turn on browsing

[Jimmy Hedman]

Binary package hint: cups

When having a printer server it makes sense to have Browsing On (instead of Browsing Off).
I find no reason to have it turned off when running a single system.

[Jimmy Hedman (jimmy-hedman)]

Reading on http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-cupsd-conf.html#Browsing gives that it should be safe to turn on browsing since it doesn't turn on sharing of the local printers.
Having "Browsing On" simplifies for the client to add printers that is browsable on other machines, for example print servers.

[Jimmy Hedman (jimmy-hedman)]

On a new installation at a customer I was once again bitten by this. This time it was a Karmic installation.

Since this looks like a trivial patch with few or no other side effects, could you pleas consider turn on Browsing in next release?

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Jimmy,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with cups and printing. You made this bug report some time ago and Ubuntu has been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know, and in the current version, run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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