Re: Cups does not find shared Windows printer while smbclient does.
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:36:05 +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
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> Of course I know that I could just add smb://mrdarcy/hpdeskjet to the
> cupsd.conf but I don't want to! This is 2010, it has to work better! :)
Ah, such automatisms will terminate us :-)
Why Cups cannot see the printer shared from windows? It could a
permissions or firewall problem. It could be a Cups bug. It can also be a
problem within the network (larger ones can experience a delay in packets
and Cups has to resolve the printer name).
Review your Windows logs.
OTOH, I see no offense in having to manually setup the printer. Cups auto-
detection system is quite new. In fact, I barely rely on those auto-
detection options, neither in linux nor windows machines.
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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