Bug 974547

Summary:	add network printer nerves with every password request for each found PC
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rolle <rolle.hoffmann>
Component:	control-center	Assignee:	Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	control-center-maint, jbradley.whited, jpopelka, kat, mkasik, nbuso, ofourdan, rolle.hoffmann, rstrode, tiagomatos, twaugh
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Description Rolle 2013-06-14 12:00:16 UTC

Description of problem:
In a big network (for instance at work) it is no fun to add a new network printer. Because cups automatically search tho whole network for PCs/printer servers and ask immediately the login/password for each found PC/printer server. Even if I press Abort this cancels only the actual login/password request. After that the next login/password request appears. And all PCs/printer servers login/password requests appear twice.
I can't manually type in the location of the printer, because the login/password requester overlays the whole printer setting window.

It may be better if the found PCs/printer servers appear only in the list and no request for login/password. If I wish to connect to a PC or printerserver so I could doubleclick on that PC/printer server and then the login/password should be requested.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 19 beta nightly 2013-06-10 LiveCD, 64 Bit

How reproducible:
everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. connect the PC to a big network with many printer/PCs
1. boot LiveCD
2. in printer settings add a network driver

Actual results:
immediately login/password requests appear (after one login/password request appears the same again and after that the next PC login/password request and so on)

Expected results:
I wish to type in manually the location or can cancel the whole search/login process or can immediately select a PC/printer server without to cancel all found PCs

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2013-06-14 13:57:07 UTC

To confirm, are you starting "Settings" and then clicking on "Printers"?

Comment 2 Marek Kašík 2013-06-14 14:32:35 UTC

Hi Tim,

yes, this is an issue in control-center. It starts to look for network printers and if it finds a samba server which needs authentication then it asks for auth info. I'll try to prepare a patch which asks for auth info just for samba servers which were manually typed in.
I'm working on a better solution of this but it needs an UI change so I plan it for 3.10 (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698532).

Regards

Marek

Comment 3 Bradley 2013-06-21 22:27:33 UTC

I'm affected by this too.  It took me about 10 restarts/retries to finally see the printer that I wanted before all of the annoying authentication popups starting showing up.  I have about 300 coworkers, so it's terrible.

For this, I suggest 2 radio boxes on the popup:
"[ ] Use this same username/password for all authentication"
"[ ] Cancel for all authentication"

It'd also be nice to simply have an "Add Manually" button so that I can enter the IP address without it searching the entire network.

Thanks

Comment 4 Nicola Buso 2013-08-15 13:03:35 UTC

In 3.6 was working; revert the code?

I don't know if was temporary (while the authentication was going on) but, while clicking cancel to a multitude of authentication pop up, I was trying to scroll the list of found printers and this list was not ordered! Having lots of printers to choose from it's not ideal.

In the meanwhile I presume using directly cups is the only way?

Cheers

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2013-08-16 10:20:34 UTC

You can still use system-config-printer.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-08-19 16:18:36 UTC

control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-08-21 00:01:44 UTC

Package control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-15038/control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2013-08-22 00:46:20 UTC

control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.