Windows network printing is problematic. Windows supports IPP printing (which is provided by CUPS on Linux, MacOSX, other_unix_operating_systems), but it doesn't support IPP sharing (hopefully, Vista will change that). So, if you share your printer over IPP (with CUPS), you have to manually add printers in Windows. This is bug in Windows, not Linux/CUPS.
Another aproach is to install Samba and share printers over SMB protocol. Those printers will automaticly apear in Windows. To achive that, you don't need cups listen on 631, just on localhost:631 and /var/run/cups/cups.sock. Then you have to configure Samba to share printers. Default CUPS installation adds /var/run/cups/cups.sock to ports.conf. If you upgraded from Breezy, then your configs aren't overwritten. -- Epson Stylus Photo R300 not accessible https://launchpad.net/bugs/49040 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
