Bug 62407

Summary:	cups shipped without smb access support
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	cups	Assignee:	wdovlrrw <brosenkr>
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Version:	7.3
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-03-31 07:13:45 UTC

CUPS supports printing to printers accessed via SMB.  It wasn't packaged to
support this, however.

The CUPS package needs to be modified to:

depend upon samba-clients
ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb

Doing so will add a "Windows printer via SAMBA" option to the print
configuration menu, and then allow specifying an SMB URI location for the printer

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-04-03 12:22:55 UTC

I strongly disagree about adding a requirement on samba-clients, there are many people 
who use cups and wouldn't touch windoze crap with a 20ft pole. 
 
I've solved the problem differently: 
cups 1.1.14-12 has triggers on samba-clients, so when samba-clients is installed, a 
symlink is set, and when samba-clients is removed, the symlink is removed.