Why samba-client not installed by default?

[Ozan Çağlayan]

Hi,

I'm trying to add a SAMBA printer through control-center in F18. As
far as I can understand, this is still only supported through
system-config-printer and not from printer panel in
gnome-control-center. Besides that since samba-client is not installed
by
default, system-config-printer is not able to look for Samba printers.

It is not obvious/intuitive for the end-user to know that he/she has
to install samba-client prior of Samba printer installation.

BTW, I still can't install the printer after all of these since it
asks me for Samba share password which is not asked when I'm
on windows, this is a completely other part of the story :)

Thanks.

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Ozan Çağlayan
Research Assistant
Galatasaray University - Computer Engineering Dept.
http://www.ozancaglayan.com