Bug 596373

(In reply to comment #0)
> On my Laptop, I want to have automatic remote server recognition.
> This worked well in f11, did fail in f13. There was a hint
> I have to run cupsd now on the local machine (in f11, cupsd
> was disabled).

If you weren't running cupsd in Fedora 11, you must have adjusted /etc/cups/client.conf or ~/.cups/client.conf to specify the name of a remote CUPS server to query.

See this page for a reminder of how that works:
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/sharing.html

> Did not work until I changed
> BrowseAllow all
> by
> BrowseAllow from all
> as documented at 
> http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html

No, those two lines are exactly equivalent.  If you saw any change in behaviour when changing that line, you also had changed something else.

Normally, sharing printers between computers works like this:
1. On the server machine, to which the printer is connected (or on which the queue is defined), make sure to mark the queue as 'Shared', and enable the 'Publish shared printers connected to this system' option in the server settings.

Then, on each client machine, make sure the 'Show printers shared by other systems' option is enabled in the server settings, and adjust the firewall so that 'Network Printing Client (IPP)' is allowed.

What would make all this easier is if system-config-printer would automatically ask the user to agree to adjusting the firewall in each of these situations:

a) the tool is started and there are no printers defined, and the user says they expect there to be.  There should be some explanatory text like:

==>
There are no printers configured yet.  If you want to use printers available on other computers click 'Use Network'.  If you want to define a new local or network printer for this computer click 'Add'.
[Use Network] [Add]
<==

Then if the user clicks 'Use Network' it should (i) adjust the firewall if necessary, and (ii) adjust the CUPS '_remote_printers' option.

If neither option needed changing and there are no 'BrowsePoll' servers defined we could then ask the user for the name of the 'network CUPS server':

==>
No network print servers are being advertised.  Please specify the hostname of your network CUPS server or network printer:
Hostname: [___]
[Cancel] [OK]
<==

When OK is clicked, it should try to contact that machine as a CUPS server to get a list of queues; if that fails, it probably isn't a CUPS server after all and we should launch into the 'Find Network Printer' part of the New Printer dialog.

Did install a second time and all went ok, so we can close the bug.

I'm going to reopen it because I think there are some useful things we could change (comment #1).

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

I don't plan to implement new features into system-config-printer - in case there is a volunteer who would like to implement the functionality, I can give him collaborator's rights at https://github.com/OpenPrinting/system-config-printer/ .