[cups.general] Where has the "show printers shared by other systems" option gone?

Tassilo Horn tsdh at gnu.org
Sun Sep 2 08:28:13 PDT 2012


Tassilo Horn <tsdh at gnu.org> writes:

> since I've upgraded to CUPS 1.6.x, the option
>
>     Show printers shared by other systems
>
> which has always been on the Administration page on localhost:631
> seems to have been removed.

I've found another thread about this issue, so no need to respond.

> It seems I need to explicitly add the printers I want to use, but
> that's not as easy as it seems.  When I press "Administration >
> Printers > Find New Printers" I get a list of all the printers
> available.  But that list doesn't show the printer names and/or
> locations, but only the models.  For example, the list contains:
>
>   Brother MFC-7440N (Brother MFC-7440N [001ba930f1cb])
>   Brother MFC-7440N (Brother MFC-7440N [001ba9317a4c])
>   Brother MFC-7440N (Brother MFC-7440N [001ba95c9e11])
>   Brother MFC-7440N (Brother MFC-7440N [001ba95c9f6f])
>
> Now even if I knew that my standard printer named "prost" was a
> Brother MFC-7440N printer, how could I decide which one of these 4
> printers it is?

When I use the system-config-printer tool, the list of printers also
shows the printer's IP address, and that allows me to select and add my
preferred printers.  For some printers, it also shows their names...

So basically that solved my issue.

Bye,
Tassilo





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