Cannot scan for printers on the network in KDE4

[James Richard Tyrer]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> In KDE 3 the user could scan an IP range for printers. As my D-Link
> DIR-320 gives the printer a different address whenever the router
> looses power, I simply told KDE 3 to scan 192.168.0.* for printers and
> it found my printer. KDE 4 does not seem to have this ability,
> furthermore, the only way to get the IP address of the printer out of
> the router is through an EXE file that the router provides for
> configuring Windows machines: not a solution for me! Is there some
> other way that I could scan the network for printers, even from a
> shell script, to get the correct IP address?
> 
IIUC, KDE4 has no printer support so this is going to have to work 
differently.

Can you use the CUPS web interface?

IIUC, KDE4 uses NetworkManager and Avahi.  I have to say that I don't 
have much of a network (Box connected to DSL modem with Ethernet) so I 
don't really know how these work or how KDE4 interfaces with them.  But, 
it looks to me that if you want a KDE4 GUI to find your printer that you 
need one or both of them.  NetworkManager depends on the DHClinet so you 
need DHCP installed too.

-- 
JRT

Linux (mostly) From Scratch

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