Comment 2 for bug 60576

For easy discovering and addition of network printers use the new facilities of CUPS 1.2.

Make sure that the SNMP backend is used (this is an SNMP network auto-scan tool, for sure exits after around 3 or 4 seconds):

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/snmp /usr/lib/cups/backend/

(I suggest that this is set by default, on Mandriva it never broke anything for me and also no user complained about it)

Then use the web interface of CUPS

https://localhost:631/

and click on "Administration". After some seconds your not yet configured network printers should be listed and you only need to click "Add this printer" and follow the instructions on the following screens. If asked for log in and password enter your log in and password (or of any privileged user).

Or use the command line:

sudo lpinfo -v

to see the auto-detected URI of your printer and then

sudo lpadmin -p <queue name> -E -v <URI> -P <PPD file>

gnome-cups-manager is not maintained upstream any more, if someone here is still hacking on it, have a look at the source code of the SNMP backend of CUPS 1.2, or let the gnome-cups-manager simply call this backend instead of doing the dirty work by itself.

Perhaps the web interface of CUPS should be listed in the Administration menu of the desktop.