Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 817110
CUPS not working with samba4
Last modified: 2012-08-12 22:25:25 EDT
Description of problem: With the samba4 packages installed instead of the samba packages, cups won't print to a remote printer using smb. I am not sure which samba4 package causes the issue, but since I had switched back and forth a few times lately, I did find that going back to samba made things work again. system-config-printer shows the following error message: "Idle - File "/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb" not available: No such file or directory". I was unable to find an owner for that file, so I suspect things are a bit more complicated than samba4 not providing that file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.5.2-12.fc17.x86_64 samba4-4.0.0-43alpha18.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Seems to happen reliably Steps to Reproduce: 1.Replace samba packages with samba4 packages 2.Try to print to network printer using smb 3. Actual results: Print jobs stay queued Expected results: Print jobs print Additional info:
This is expected at current stage of the development of samba4 package. Simply do not install samba4 yet.
The symlink is created by the cups package during installation. There is a trigger if the samba-client package is installed. The same trigger needs to be added for samba4-client package. Reassigning to cups. Thanks!
*** Bug 814793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I tested this and was able to print using samba4 instead of samba. I did end up having to reinstall the updated cups after switching to samba4 to get it to work. My guess is that the trigger is sensitive to the order in which the packages are installed. (And that is why there is a comment above saying that samba4-client needs a trigger as well.)
cups-1.5.3-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cups-1.5.3-1.fc17
Package cups-1.5.3-2.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cups-1.5.3-2.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-7958/cups-1.5.3-2.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
I have exactly the same problem on my up-to-date Fedora 17 system: I have samba4 instead of samba (I'm not even sure why, I don't remember making this choice deliberately), and printing to Samba printers simply stopped working, with everything simply remaining on the queue and lpq tells me that my printer "is not ready". Doing 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cups-1.5.3-2.fc17' as suggested above indeed fixed the problem! So why, more than a month later, isn't this update moved to the general updates repository?
Look at the link in comment 6. This package has negative karma due to other regressions and thus is kept out of stable updates.
Package cups-1.5.4-1.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cups-1.5.4-1.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-7958/cups-1.5.4-1.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
cups-1.5.4-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.