Description of problem: There is no option NCP on system-config-printer. There was on the old versions of Fedora. But now there is all other options, except NCP one. I've installed ipx-utils and ncpfs. I can mount the volume perfectly, but thereś no NCP option on system-config-printer. The command pqlist works fine. how can I print in a novell queue? Thanks.
Did you find the problem? Did it happened with you? Thank you, Douglas Chagas
Hi, yes, I have reproduced it. We need to ship CUPS backend for NCP (probably wrapper around nprint). But please be patient, I have a lot of urgent work now...
Sorry about the insistence. I realy don´t want boring you. But the functions of the printer is realy important to me, and I think to lots of people. Is there any other option, how to print in a NCP printer without that backend you said? Or do you have a preview when the packet will be available? Thank you very much, Douglas Chagas
I don´t know how can I ask in a polite way. But, any new? thanks, Douglas Chagas
Hi Douglas, I spare some time and here is what I discover... CUPS backend for NCP already exists (file /usr/lib/cups/backend/ncp). system-config-printer gets list of devices by running this script without parametres. This part of script is invoked: if [ -z "$*" ] then # This is where we would enumerate all the URIs we support. # Patches welcome. exit 0 fi So here is IMHO the problem, the script do actually nothig. It's owned by cups package, so maybe maintaner of cups package can tell us more. Another thing -- it's possible, that GUI for setting NCP in system-config-printer doesn't exist too. Can you print manually with those commands -- pqlist, pserver, pqstat, pqrm, nprint from ncpfs package?
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