Re: Configuring samba printer on Fedora 14

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:21 -0800, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
...
 So what do I need to configure on F14 to make printer configuration
 via samba work right? 
There seems to be some kind of issue with authenticating using
libsmbclient, the SMB library that system-config-printer uses:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767673

...
 On another note there is one thing I find really annoying regarding
 adding a printer, and that's the number of times I'm asked for the
 root password.  I'm asked the root password first when I select add
 printer.  After providing it (correctly) I am asked it again to get
 privileges to access network printers.  I am asked the root password a
 third time when I go to apply the printer configuration.  After I
 enter the password I am again prompted for the root password to get
 additional privileges.  So in total I was asked for the root password
 4 times - this seems excessive. 
This is configurable:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Printing/ConfigurationTool#PolicyKit_confi...

and in fact I have asked for the default to be changed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596711

Tim.
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