To answer my own question (since no one else bothered), here's a PPA providing CUPS "1.6.2-1ubuntu2~quantal~ppa0":
https://launchpad.net/~teward/+archive/cups-backports/ Installed on my x86_64 system running Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) XFCE it solves my problem with a minimum of upgrade ripples or other disruption. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069671 Title: no print queues displayed in pure client mode Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “cups” source package in Quantal: Triaged Bug description: Package: cups Version: 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 On 12.10, in pure client mode (ServerName set in client.conf -- see attachment) I am unable to get any remote printers from our university print server. That is, trying to print from Firefox, only the default PDF printer is shown. I would have expected a large number of queues to be displayed. I have consulted out sysadmin to obtain more information about the server -- apparently it runs CUPS 1.2.7 on SuSE. Please find attached the requested nmap output (I had to remove the server IP and hostname by the sysadmin's request). I have also asked the sysadmin for a server error log, which I have also attached to this bug report. It shows my unsuccessful access attempts. The same setup worked fine in 12.04. Did I miss something? -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal-proposed'), (500, 'quantal'), (100, 'quantal-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cups depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu1ubuntu1 ii bc 1.06.95-4 ii cups-client 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 ii cups-common 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 ii cups-filters 1.0.24-2 ii cups-ppdc 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.46ubuntu1 ii dpkg 1.16.7ubuntu6 ii ghostscript 9.06~dfsg-0ubuntu4 ii libavahi-client3 0.6.31-1ubuntu2 ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-1ubuntu2 ii libc6 2.15-0ubuntu20 ii libcups2 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 ii libcupscgi1 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 ii libcupsimage2 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 ii libcupsmime1 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 ii libcupsppdc1 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.4-1ubuntu4 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-2ubuntu1 ii libgnutls26 2.12.14-5ubuntu4 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-2 ii libkrb5-3 1.10.1+dfsg-2 ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7ubuntu3 ii libpaper1 1.1.24+nmu2 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-2ubuntu1 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.12-2 ii lsb-base 4.0-0ubuntu26 ii poppler-utils 0.20.4-0ubuntu1 ii procps 1:3.3.3-2ubuntu3 ii ssl-cert 1.0.32 ii upstart [upstart-job] 1.5-0ubuntu9 Versions of packages cups recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.6.31-1ubuntu2 ii colord 0.1.21-1ubuntu2 ii foomatic-filters 4.0.17-1 ii ghostscript-cups 9.06~dfsg-0ubuntu4 ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.9-1ubuntu1 Versions of packages cups suggests: ii cups-bsd 1.6.1-0ubuntu11 pn cups-pdf <none> ii foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db] 20120823-0ubuntu4 ii hplip 3.12.6-3ubuntu4 ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.12.6-3ubuntu4 ii smbclient 2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5 ii udev 175-0ubuntu13 -- debconf information: cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/backend: ipp, ipp14, lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1069671/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
