Samba network printers unusable with default Fedora Desktop installs

[Elad Alfassa]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:36 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> <snip>
> >         Why does it need samba-client? It's a package containing
> >         command-line
> >         utilities none of which seem to be used by
> >         gnome-control-center.
> > I have no idea, all I know is that I got an error trying to add a
> > samba printer without this package installed. Same issue happens with
> > system-config-printer (just a bit more verbose, saying "CUPS ERROR NOT
> > POSSIBLE" or something similar, so it must be some lousy cups
> > problem)
>
> Then it seems to me that cups or system-config-printer are missing the
> dep, not control-center.
>
> $ FILES=`rpm -ql system-config-printer | grep 'py$'` ; for i in `rpm -ql
> samba-client | grep /bin/` ; do BASENAME=`basename $i` ; grep -l
> $BASENAME $FILES && echo $i ; done
> /usr/share/system-config-printer/troubleshoot/CheckPrinterSanity.py
> /usr/bin/nmblookup
>
> Looks like system-config-printer might be responsible for the missing
> dep. Would be better if that wasn't needed though.
>
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Shouldn't printers work even with system-config-printer isn't present on
the system tho?
There are some people who would really like not to have
system-config-printer by default at all.

-- 
-Elad Alfassa.
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