Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 974547
add network printer nerves with every password request for each found PC
Last modified: 2013-08-21 20:46:20 EDT
Description of problem: In a big network (for instance at work) it is no fun to add a new network printer. Because cups automatically search tho whole network for PCs/printer servers and ask immediately the login/password for each found PC/printer server. Even if I press Abort this cancels only the actual login/password request. After that the next login/password request appears. And all PCs/printer servers login/password requests appear twice. I can't manually type in the location of the printer, because the login/password requester overlays the whole printer setting window. It may be better if the found PCs/printer servers appear only in the list and no request for login/password. If I wish to connect to a PC or printerserver so I could doubleclick on that PC/printer server and then the login/password should be requested. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 19 beta nightly 2013-06-10 LiveCD, 64 Bit How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. connect the PC to a big network with many printer/PCs 1. boot LiveCD 2. in printer settings add a network driver Actual results: immediately login/password requests appear (after one login/password request appears the same again and after that the next PC login/password request and so on) Expected results: I wish to type in manually the location or can cancel the whole search/login process or can immediately select a PC/printer server without to cancel all found PCs Additional info:
To confirm, are you starting "Settings" and then clicking on "Printers"?
Hi Tim, yes, this is an issue in control-center. It starts to look for network printers and if it finds a samba server which needs authentication then it asks for auth info. I'll try to prepare a patch which asks for auth info just for samba servers which were manually typed in. I'm working on a better solution of this but it needs an UI change so I plan it for 3.10 (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698532). Regards Marek
I'm affected by this too. It took me about 10 restarts/retries to finally see the printer that I wanted before all of the annoying authentication popups starting showing up. I have about 300 coworkers, so it's terrible. For this, I suggest 2 radio boxes on the popup: "[ ] Use this same username/password for all authentication" "[ ] Cancel for all authentication" It'd also be nice to simply have an "Add Manually" button so that I can enter the IP address without it searching the entire network. Thanks
In 3.6 was working; revert the code? I don't know if was temporary (while the authentication was going on) but, while clicking cancel to a multitude of authentication pop up, I was trying to scroll the list of found printers and this list was not ordered! Having lots of printers to choose from it's not ideal. In the meanwhile I presume using directly cups is the only way? Cheers
You can still use system-config-printer.
control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19
Package control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-15038/control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
control-center-3.8.4.1-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.