[cups.general] Auto discovering Windows printer?

[Michael Sweet]

All you can discover via NetBIOS are servers, not printers. Querying every discovered server for shared printers on a large network is a recipe for disaster, thus the SMB backend doesn't even try.

On Oct 3, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Anonymous wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Isn't CUPS supposed to detect a printer that is connected to a Windows PC in the same LAN? The "List available printers" shows nothing while smbclient does:
> 
> $ smbclient -L mrdarcy -N
> Domain=[MRDARCY] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
> 
>        Sharename       Type      Comment
>        ---------       ----      -------
>        IPC$            IPC       Remote-IPC
>        print$          Disk      Druckertreiber
>        SharedDocs      Disk
>        hpdeskjet       Printer   hp deskjet 3600 series <-----
> 
> Any ideas why it isn't automatically discovered?
> 
> 
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair