Bug 1026858
| Summary: | Unable to add a samba printer queue | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Nicola Buso <nbuso> | ||||||
| Component: | control-center | Assignee: | Felipe Borges <feborges> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 23 | CC: | control-center-maint, fmuellner, mkasik, ofourdan, rstrode, tiagomatos | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2016-12-20 12:43:09 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Nicola Buso
2013-11-05 14:37:37 UTC
(In reply to Nicola Buso from comment #0) > Description of problem: > Configure samba printer queue with authentication > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > 3.8.5-1.fc19 > > How reproducible: > Try to add a samba printer queue with authentication > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Open the "Settings" (control-center) > 2. Open the "Printers" configuration > 3. Unlock the printer settings if needed "Unlock" button on top right > 4. Click the "+" button > 5. Select the printer from the list > > Actual results: > The printer queue is not in the list. I can't neither reach an interface for > the authentication, I hope is present somewhere. > > > Expected results: > Possibility to choose a printer that is currently available in the network > > > Additional info: > I can understand somebody decided to simplify this printer settings > interface but it's completely confusing: > > 1. you are writing only the names of the printers, and in our office there > are several printers shared in the network. there are lot of other > information that can help the user to figure out which is the right printer We are showing the name of the printer, whether it is local or network printer (the icon) and location if it is available. How are those printers configured? Is it a CUPS server? > 2. is not possible to manually insert a samba URL. I know exactly which > printer I want to add but this interface is not accepting suggestions on > what to do!! Try to enter url of the samba server there and press enter it should reveal printers on it. > 3. this interface is a complete lack of homogeneity in the Gnome 3 > environment; if I try to print from "Document Viewer" or from "Evolution" > there is a different interface to discover printers, where: > a. the names of printers are different => confusing the user Are there different names for the same printer or are there different printers in those lists? It can happen that there are Avahi printers in the gtk print dialog which we don't show in the settings panel. > b. at least there are more informations like "location" => can help the user The location is shown in the new printer dialog too if it is available. > c. there are the samba queue I was looking for. Why the hell are not in the > control-center? Does the queue shows in result of "lpstat -s" command? > Because it seems the developer of this application is not in the condition to > test what he's doing I will be more than happy to help testing. It's always nice to read such comments, thank you for it! I'll add it to my collection. This part of gnome-control-center's printers panel was improved in 3.10.x it shows samba servers which need authentication among found devices. User can select such server and press "Authenticate" which will result in showing printers configured on it. Marek Created attachment 819829 [details]
control center printer settings
Created attachment 819830 [details]
evolution printer settings
(In reply to Marek Kašík from comment #1) > (In reply to Nicola Buso from comment #0) > > Description of problem: > > Configure samba printer queue with authentication > > > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > > 3.8.5-1.fc19 > > > > How reproducible: > > Try to add a samba printer queue with authentication > > > > Steps to Reproduce: > > 1. Open the "Settings" (control-center) > > 2. Open the "Printers" configuration > > 3. Unlock the printer settings if needed "Unlock" button on top right > > 4. Click the "+" button > > 5. Select the printer from the list > > > > Actual results: > > The printer queue is not in the list. I can't neither reach an interface for > > the authentication, I hope is present somewhere. > > > > > > Expected results: > > Possibility to choose a printer that is currently available in the network > > > > > > Additional info: > > I can understand somebody decided to simplify this printer settings > > interface but it's completely confusing: > > > > 1. you are writing only the names of the printers, and in our office there > > are several printers shared in the network. there are lot of other > > information that can help the user to figure out which is the right printer > > We are showing the name of the printer, whether it is local or network > printer (the icon) and location if it is available. How are those printers > configured? Is it a CUPS server? I added two screenshot to clarify, I can see the name of the printer, but no location. In the evolution printing windows I have different names, the location and the status. Sincerly I'm not configuring CUPS, it's done by a system group, I want only to add a printer, and I have the name and the complete URL of something that is already configured on the network! > > > > 2. is not possible to manually insert a samba URL. I know exactly which > > printer I want to add but this interface is not accepting suggestions on > > what to do!! > > Try to enter url of the samba server there and press enter it should reveal > printers on it. Sorry I was not clear I tryed but is not working. I have a complete URL of the form: smb://<host>/<path to the queue> I tryed: - smb://<host>/<path to the queue> - smb://<host>/ - //<host>/<path to the queue> - //<host>/ - <host> nothing is discovered. If I use the full URL smb://<host>/<path to the queue> and press "Add" it try to add the selected printer in the list (at least the first is always selected), obviously it's not the printer I want. N.B.: the same smb URL is working in system-config-printer > > > > 3. this interface is a complete lack of homogeneity in the Gnome 3 > > environment; if I try to print from "Document Viewer" or from "Evolution" > > there is a different interface to discover printers, where: > > a. the names of printers are different => confusing the user > > Are there different names for the same printer or are there different > printers in those lists? It can happen that there are Avahi printers in the > gtk print dialog which we don't show in the settings panel. I think both I did not check every printer listed. I just let you notice that no one of the printer in the evolution printer window has a dash "-" in the name, there are only underscore "_", while the control center has only names with dashes. To me seam the two application are showing different values as names, for this reason I'm saying it's confusing. > > > > b. at least there are more informations like "location" => can help the user > > The location is shown in the new printer dialog too if it is available. No there is in evolution, not in control-center > > > > c. there are the samba queue I was looking for. Why the hell are not in the > > control-center? > > Does the queue shows in result of "lpstat -s" command? No > > > > Because it seems the developer of this application is not in the condition to > > test what he's doing I will be more than happy to help testing. > > It's always nice to read such comments, thank you for it! I'll add it to my > collection. Sorry I didn't want to be really rude, and I apology if I was; but after this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974547 it seam to me the printer settings is not going to the right direction. As stated if you need any other information I'm really happy to help making it working, in the meanwhile "system-config-printer" > > > This part of gnome-control-center's printers panel was improved in 3.10.x it > shows samba servers which need authentication among found devices. User can > select such server and press "Authenticate" which will result in showing > printers configured on it. I will report on it as soon as this version will be in a stable fedora release. I don't think I can install it on fedora 19 easly, but let me know in case. > > Marek Nicola This message is a notice that Fedora 19 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 19. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '19'. 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