system-config-printer and CUPS 1.3 are improving the situation: Now printers can be easily shared between Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS X. CUPS 1.3 together with Avahi implements mDNS/DNS-SD/Bonjour/Zeroconf broadcasting of CUPS print queues so that Mac OS X discovers printers set up on Ubuntu boxes. system-config-printer and the add-on CUPS backend dnssd (in the cupsys package) discover CUPS printers shared by Mac OS X machines and do the correct setup to access them from Ubuntu machines. Only better GUI support for sharing with Windows is needed. This is partially implemented for Windows as server with system-config- printer, which scans the network for printers shared via SMB and checks authentication for the selected printer.
-- User-friendly printer sharing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119541 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
