Bug 51621 - smb printers, very confusing setup
Summary: smb printers, very confusing setup
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 43905
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: printconf
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-13 08:44 UTC by giulioo
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-12-18 23:08:08 UTC
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Description giulioo 2001-08-13 08:44:05 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-01-10 12:56:18 UTC
This seems to be a duplicate of bug #43905.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43905 ***


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