Windows printer via Samba

Good afternoon,

Though I've been using Fedora for several years, it's only been in the 
last few weeks that I've been helping out in small ways with Fedora QA. 
So I'm not at master sage Fedora guru. More like I'm junior squid bait.

I don't use samba because I don't have any windows machines, but I 
always set up my printer using CUPS. CUPS seems able see all the network 
printers. If your printer is connected to the network, perhaps you could 
try CUPS to set up your printer. You can use your web browser to access 
CUPS at http://localhost:631/ I may be wrong, but I think a printer 
could probably take jobs through samba from some machines and through 
IPP for others

With regard to F28, I also found a bug with regard to setting up a 
printer on my network, but through the Gnome Settings Printers. There is 
an open bug report on that at Buzzilla. As I said, I always use CUPS to 
set up printers. I was just trying the Gnome tool as part of my testing 
for F28. As a follow up, I loaded system-config-printer and used that to 
determine what went wrong, fix it, and provide information to the one 
assigned to the bug. It turned out that the Gnome tool had not enabled 
the printer and left a couple other parameters unset.

In any case you may want to try CUPS.

I'm replying to this as a try to be of help. This is not a suggestion to 
modify the acceptance criteria for a new release. The extra testing I do 
is simply to find out if things work and file bug reports as needed.


         Have a Great Day!

         Pat (tablepc)