Bug 107849
| Summary: | RFE: Cups should support printer aliases | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Aaron Whiteman <awhitema> |
| Component: | cups | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:59:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91674 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20030306 Camino/0.7 Description of problem: Under redhat 7.x, using lprNG, we were able to use multiple names for a single printer. We had to do this for backwards compatibility and to provide meaningful names for our users, while simultaneously providing cryptic names that describe the location of the printer (mandated naming policy). Thus, a single Panasonic printer could be called both "serodot" and "pbu255h-a". When exporting the printer database to XML, these secondary names are stored and used to generate /etc/printcap as appropriate (and everything works). Under redhat 9, we do not get the aliases. As far as we can tell, the database is still storing this information, but CUPS is certainly not seeing it. The workaround is to create full printer entries for each alias, amounting to well over 200 "printers". It would be nice if CUPS could handle aliases, or as an alternative, printtool creates the printers for us (we don't care if CUPS has 200+ printers, as long as the redhat tools don't force US to deal with it). Is this possible? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.1.17-13 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create printer using printconf with aliases on system with lprng (we used rh7.2 and rhes2.1) 2. printconf-tui --Xexport > settings.xml 3. on CUPS-based system (rh9 in our case), printconf-tui --Ximport < settings.xml 4. lpq -P<alias> Actual Results: the printer is not found Expected Results: queue listed for printer described by alias Additional info: