Bug 62407 - cups shipped without smb access support
Summary: cups shipped without smb access support
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: cups
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Blocks: 61901
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Reported: 2002-03-31 07:13 UTC by Chris Ricker
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-04-01 21:07:18 UTC
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-03-31 07:13:45 UTC 
CUPS supports printing to printers accessed via SMB.  It wasn't packaged to
support this, however.

The CUPS package needs to be modified to:

depend upon samba-clients
ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb

Doing so will add a "Windows printer via SAMBA" option to the print
configuration menu, and then allow specifying an SMB URI location for the printer
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-04-03 12:22:55 UTC 
I strongly disagree about adding a requirement on samba-clients, there are many people 
who use cups and wouldn't touch windoze crap with a 20ft pole. 
 
I've solved the problem differently: 
cups 1.1.14-12 has triggers on samba-clients, so when samba-clients is installed, a 
symlink is set, and when samba-clients is removed, the symlink is removed.
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