Description of problem: The setup of smb printers seems to be very counter-intuitive, and prone to errors. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Use printconf from within gnome to setup an smb printer. Wizard asks for "share"; until now, everytime I've heard "share" I thought to the printer share, so I typed it, wondering where I could insert the netbios name of the windows pc.... Actual Results: Printer does not work, because for "share" the wizard wants this: \\\\netbiosname-of-pc\\printer-name This is the only way I could make it work after looking at what /usr/share/printconf/util/smbprint does. I think noone will use the correct syntax at the first try. Expected Results: Wizard should have 2 fields: Netbios name of the pc: Netbios name of the printer share: and use this info to build the correct syntax Additional info: smbprint uses -N which means "no password", but it uses the password if you type it. I don't know if this may cause further problems. Maybe consider the syntax -U$username%$password where if variables are blank it's considered an anonymous login.
This seems to be a duplicate of bug #43905. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43905 ***