[cups.general] network printer setup

[Peter Flynn]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:44:37PM -0500, kelvin wrote:
> 
>> I am a new user to Ubuntu and a bit of a dummy. I dont know if 
>> this message is posted in the right place even. Can someone show me 
>> in simple terms how to install a printer which is located on a print 
>> server on my LAN. 
> 
> On a distribution which doesn't suck, for example Debian, you'd point
> your web browser to http://localhost:631/ and from there it's (almost)
> obvious.
> 
> But some Debian-based distro makers decided they knew better...

I suspected as much -- I was cursing CUPS for being broken; perhaps it's 
Ubuntu, or Ubuntu's rewriting of CUPS. Can someone who actually *knows* 
please post the whys and wherefores of this.

CUPS under Edgy won't find any SMB printers, and when told to look for 
the IPP service of my little EdiMax Ethernet-to-USB printer-handler, it
will print but not clear the job once printed.

Is it possible to identify who (individual) is responsible for breaking 
CUPS under Ubuntu?

///Peter