From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: The "Add a new Print Queue" wizard needs to browse a system for print shares. I think on the Queue type page if you have a server defined there should be a "Scan for Shares" or "Browse Shares" so you can select it from a list. This would make it much easier to install new printers in a larger environment. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Printer Configuration 2. Add a new printer. Additional info:
Not sure what you mean here. What type of transport? IPP, or something else?
IPP would be good, but lets say I selected SMB(IPP, LPD or NCP) and put in a server name and possibly username and password and it would scan the server for print shares of that type in this case SMB. It would then present a list you could select from or type in your own share name. I know this will be different for each transport and some may not work.
For IPP, CUPS browsing should already do what you want, with no set-up on the client end. For SMB, there is already a selector which is meant to list the available queues on the network. Is this not working for you? For LPD and NCP it is not possible to do in general, as far as I know.
I do see this, so maybe my issue is a different one. I only see SMB based systems on my subnet I can't see the server that the print queues reside on because it is on a different one.
Have you enabled the firewall? If so you won't see broadcast CUPS shares unless you manually poke a hole in it (or add them manually). I'm sure there's a bug about this somewhere (and if there isn't' there should be).
The thing I am trying to do is to browse the print shares on an HP Print Server Appliance. It supposed to let you print via IPP, CUPS, LPD, and SMB. My problem with this appliance is is that I don't know what the IPP/CUPS/LPD print queues are named. It only shows me the SMB one through the web interface. So I want to be able to scan the device and get a list of all available print queues to pick from. I can't see any broadcasts because our print server appliances are on a different subnet than the one I am on. Joe
Does "smbclient -L APPLIANCE" (substitute the name of your HP appliance for APPLIANCE) show the queue names?
Yes this shows all the queues. They are cropped but they are visable.
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The SMB browser could certainly stand some improvements. The problem is finding someone who knows enough about how it should work to code it. :-(
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The SMB browser has been substantially re-worked in Fedora 10. A test package for Fedora 9 will be available shortly. Are you still able to test this?