Description of problem:
Today I spent an hour trying to add a shared printer on a Windows machine to my F-15 laptop.

System-config-printer was giving me this cryptic error message:

"CUPS server error

There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-not-possible'."

Looking at the /var/log/cups/error_log file, it revealed more details:
"D [14/Jul/2011:17:07:13 +0200] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer client-error-not-possible: Bad device-uri scheme "smb"!
E [14/Jul/2011:17:07:13 +0200] Returning IPP client-error-not-possible for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (ipp://localhost/printers/hp1010) from localhost"

But still, I didn't know what to do.

Finally, I read a tip somewhere and installed the samba-client rpm package and it everything worked!

I think system-config-printer should depend on samba-client or at least a more sensible error message that you have to install the samba-client rpm package.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.4.7-3.fc15.x86_64
system-config-printer-1.3.3-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.