gnome-cups-manager / gnome-cups-add problems

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:02:26 -0600, Yousif Hassan <yousif at alumni.jmu.edu>  
wrote:

> Thanks Jeremy for trying to help:
>
>> It works for me with gnome-cups-(manager|add) by setup to connect via
>> samba on other computer that has WindowsXP with printer. I can't get
>> printer works on FreeBSD even via web-based CUPS interface, so only way  
>> to
>> get work is by via samba+cups. So... I never knew how
>> gnome-cups-(manager|add) are doing on FreeBSD with printer.
>
> Funny you should mention that.  Samba is actually the source of my
> problem, and I tracked it down in the CUPS log
> in /var/log/cups/error_log:
>
> CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer client-error-not-possible: Bad device-uri
> "smb://MYDOMAIN\yhassan:mypasswd@PKFILE1/ENG_HP4000"!
>
> The reason it fails is because of the invalid characters, it seems.
> Still haven't figured out which but it's probably the '\'.  Problem is,
> I know of no other way to pass domain information in the SMB uri.

It took me a while to search in google and I have found it. See here:

http://quantumg.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-printer-on-linux.html

It said that this fix is in CVS, so I will dig in CVS/SVN. I should have a  
patch available for you to test tonight or tomorrow. Very very surpised to  
see that Ubuntu doesn't has this patch.

BTW: I have added five new patches ready that came from Ubuntu, but these  
patches have nothing to do with your problem thought.

Cheers,
Mezz

> *This* URI does work in terms of not crapping out in gnome-cups-manager:
>
> "smb://PKFILE1/ENG_HP4000"
>
> However, I have to pass the domain information to get authenticated at
> work.  I wonder if this URI-handling error is an upstream issue - it
> wouldn't make sense if it were just FreeBSD.
>
> So I mean to ask: how did you get your SMB printers installed into CUPS
> with GNOME's CUPS manager?  With a simple URI as above, or do you know
> to send domain info in a more friendly way? ;)
>
>> > GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
>> > Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
>> > specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
>>
>> This error is harmless, you get that because your GTK app is running as  
>> in
>> root. You will see a lot of that if you search in google. I get that too
>> and I don't have problem with use gnome-cups-(manager|add).
>
> You're right, I finally figured this out.  Thanks for confirming!
>
>> Sorry, my respone isn't really helpful since I am pretty clueless  
>> either.
>> If I have printer that works with FreeBSD, then it would be a different
>> story as I might be able to get it works.
>
> Actually, I'm curious about how you passed a Samba URI - see above.  And
> thanks 'gain.
>
> --Yousif



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