Samba network printers unusable with default Fedora Desktop installs

[Elad Alfassa]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:

> Elad Alfassa wrote:
>
> > I recently discovered that if I have a printer attached to a Windows
> > machine (and shared via samba), it'll unusable on default install,
> because
> > samba-client isn't installed by default.
> ...
> > Ideally I think it should be added as a Requires in control-center's spec
> > file, but we could add it to comps instead. If you think adding this to
> > the default install is a bad idea, control-center should install it with
> > packagekit whenever users tries to add a Samba printer.
>
> Adding to comps (gnome-desktop or whatever) to get installed by default
> should be sufficient (while allowing for those who don't want it)
>
> See also this commit (since f18) to spin-kickstarts
>
> commit 2c04fe5d624c3b9c1d3658b8fe0c8b4a71c910bb
> Author: Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> Date:   Sat Jan 26 08:58:40 2013 -0800
>
>     drop samba-client from minimization (it's needed for SMB print sharing)
>
> -- rex
>
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I installed fedora 19 from liveCD and samba-client wasn't there. Anyway,
bug reported against the cups package... The only issue still standing in
this thread is if we should add hpijs to the live media.

-- 
-Elad Alfassa.
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