Ubuntu
kdebase package

network printer auto-discovery is not discoverable

Bug #51542 reported by karlrhs
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kdebase (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

kde network printer auto discovery is not as discoverable as it is in gnome. bug 8975 has details on what was done to the gnome print dialogue particularly comments 14 onwards.

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

Sharing printers on 6.06 version is done like this:
sudo /usr/share/cups/enable_sharing 1

Enabling your clients to see shared printers is done like this:
sudo /usr/share/cups/enable_browsing 1

It's true, KDE doesn't have GUI for doing this. But this is cause printing.kde.org stoped developing 4 years ago. Hopefully, GUI will be created at some point in the future.

As you can see, you don't need any other password but your own. Desipte Kurt's blog, none functionality was taken from CUPS. If you want to use web interface, you should read README.Debian or Kurt's blog, in which he clearly states that one should add cupsys user to shadow group.

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

This isn't CUPS bug, since CUPS has instruments for enabling sharing/browsing. KDE doesn't provide GUI for it, so this is a KDE bug.

Changed in cupsys:
importance: Untriaged → Medium
Dean Sas (dsas)
description: updated
Dean Sas (dsas)
description: updated
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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :

This is also reported in bug 17981

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