Bug 159153

Summary: Unable to use spadmin to redefine a CUPS printer as a fax device
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brian Johnson <bjohnson>
Component: openoffice.orgAssignee: Caolan McNamara <caolanm>
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49980
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Fixed In Version: 1.9.104-2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Brian Johnson 2005-05-30 18:46:34 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The url to the issue report in the openoffice project explains it all

They say it is a problem created by Fedora


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openoffice.org-1.1.3-11.5.0.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open spadmin
2. redefine a CUPS printer as a oo.org fax device and add a command
3. exit and restart spadmin, the command is gone
  

Actual Results:  No command saved

Expected Results:  Command should have been saved

Additional info:
Comment 1 Brian Johnson 2005-06-10 15:54:41 UTC 
why was this closed?
Comment 2 Brian Johnson 2005-06-20 13:58:21 UTC 
No idea why this was closed.

Also, I've upgraded to FC4 and problem has changed but results are the same.

Now you cannot redefine a CUPS printer as a fax device at all.

Just to clarify, when using fax4cups it would be best if openoffice.org would
auto sense that printer as a fax device, but short of that it would be best to
be able to use spadmin to redefine it on each workstation.

Current situation is that fax2cups device shows in oo.org but is unusable.  A
second fax device must be added to use the fax4cups system which results in 2
printers showing up in oo.org.  One works, the other doesn't.  

Confusing, and it seems to be interpreted as an obvious bug, for users.
Comment 3 Brian Johnson 2005-06-22 13:29:08 UTC 
Fax4cups homepage:
http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/fax4CUPS

It is really easy to install and easily expands faxmodem sharing through your
network by using the CUPS autobrowsing features.

I reported it on openoffice.org here:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49920

They closed it because 1.1.x worked differently than 1.1.3 in FC3.  In their
version, the CUPS printers did not list in the spadmin program at all so
defining a CUPS printer as a fax device was possible by simply defining a oo.org
printer with the same name as a CUPS printer.  

Their solution was still not fully acceptable since although CUPS printers
displayed in the oo.org printer selection boxes (but not in spadmin), they did
not list the CUPS printer classes (groups of printers definable in CUPS) at all. 


I had to approach the problem from another angle to get them to consider doing
anything, so the above bug report evolved into this feature enhancement request
to Autosense fax4cups devices and configure automatically
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49980

This bug report is related to this issue since it reinforces the current need to
use spadmin for setting up fax devices to "swallow" the fax number (ie not
include the fax number field in the fax output)
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49981